KANSAS CITY, Mo. – In the early morning hours as employees of two metro area fast food restaurants were getting ready for the day two people burst through the door in disguises demanding money. It happened at a Burger King in Kansas City, Missouri and a McDonald’s in Kansas City, Kansas, but police aren’t saying the two are connected.
Police say at the Burger King on Blue Parkway, the two disguised men got in through an open back door around 6:00 a.m. as a delivery was being made. They held up the truck driver and forced him inside.
Kansas city police say the thieves got away with cash, but not any lives, due in part to the employees’ actions.
“Your life, your well-being is not worth any property or money that they could get ahold of,” said KCMO police investigator, Donald Carter.
About six miles away in Kansas City, Kansas minutes earlier, a McDonald’s is also robbed. Police say two disguised men storm into the fast food restaurant, demanding cash.
It’s a scenario that doesn’t sit well with Wendy Wilson.
“People are desperate, and they don’t care who the victims are, whether they’re rich or poor, they victimize whoever. It’s just about them,” Wilson, the Executive Director of the Rosedale Development Association, said.
Wilson walks door to door warning other nearby businesses to be aware and help catch the suspects. She says criminals aren’t welcome here, so she’s arming herself with pictures of suspects in the McDonald’s robbery.
One of the suspects in the McDonald’s robbery has a large tattoo on his right lower leg. The vehicle those robbers got away in could be a light green or silver four-door car.
Police ask you to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS if you have any information.