Masked Armed Robber Holds Up Murphy USA Gas Station in Eagle Pass, Texas; Five Detained by Eagle Pass Police Department

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2019

Eagle Pass Police Department Investigative Division Lieutenant Hector Blanco announced that a masked armed robber held up the Murphy USA gas station at Walmart Super Center located at Bibb Avenue in Eagle Pass, Texas at 3:30 A.M. on Wednesday, December 4, 2019.

Blanco noted that the masked assailant walked into the Murphy USA gas station and demanded all the money in the cash register while possessing a firearm to the store cashier. The cashier followed the assailant’s instructions and the assailant fled on foot south towards the Lowe’s parking lot, adjacent to Walmart.

The quick reporting of the armed robbery and look out by the Eagle Pass Police Department resulted in the detention of an automobile with five persons, four adults and one juvenile, on Yota Street in Eagle Pass with a mask, firearm, and cash money inside of it. The five individuals were arrested as suspects of the armed robbery of the Murphy USA gas station and being investigated and interviewed.

The case remains under investigation by the Eagle Pass Police Department.