Logan Circle men’s clothing and athletic store Universal Gear posted a surveillance video of a recent robbery in their store to YouTube, and they’re offering a $500 reward to anyone who shares information leading to the arrest of one or more of the individuals involved.
In the video, you can plainly see a large group of eight to nine young men enter the store, located at 1529 14th St NW, and begin browsing. After about 30 seconds of piling clothes into their arms, the youths flee the store all at once, getting into a scuffle with two of the store’s employees (one of whom is wielding some kind of a bat) along the way. All of the suspects get away.
The crime is remarkably similar to another recent group robbery at Rue 14, a women’s boutique several blocks north on 14th Street. In that incident, a large group of young women entered the store together and stole multiple items of clothing before fleeing, leaving one person behind to assault the store manager.