Police investigating Kitchener convenience store robbery

By Mark Pare

Posted Jan 12, 2021 11:00:00 AM.

A convenience store robbery in Kitchener has police looking for a suspect.

Regional Police were called to the store on King Street East just after 12:30 a.m. Saturday morning.

Police say an unknown man went in, picked out some merchandise and brandished a knife.

Nobody was hurt in the incident.

Police are looking for a white male in his 40's, who was wearing a black bandana over his face, as well as a black coat with a fur-trimmed hood, blue jeans and black Nike running shoes.

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