NEWBURGH – One of two suspects who held up the clerk at the Valero gas station at 115 Lake Street in Newburgh early Saturday, July 1, has been charged with armed robbery. A second suspect believed to have been involved in the incident slipped away from Orange County Sheriff’s SWAT team members who swept the store and gave Newburgh Police the all-clear, sources said. He made off with the weapon used in the crime as well as merchandise from the store, according to the sources.
Tyreek Shelby, 18, was taken into custody after he barricaded himself in a back room, which was breached by the sheriff’s SWAT team and he was found hiding in the ceiling with a long gun and a backpack, according to the felony complaint.
The court document said Shelby and the other suspect, described as “two younger-looking skinny black males,” entered the gas station at around 3:25 a.m. One held the gun.
Both men came around the counter and the one with the gun fired two shots into the ground and demanded that the clerk open the register, the complaint filed in Newburgh City Court stated.
The other man took cash from the register as well as cigarettes, lotto tickets, cigars and lighters.
The court document said the man with the gun demanded that the clerk open a large safe and fired another shot into the ground when the clerk told him he couldn’t open it.
The men then demanded that the clerk open the ATM machine and when the clerk said he couldn’t do that either, the man without the gun slapped him in the face twice and the man with the weapon hit him with the butt, the court papers indicated.
Newburgh City Police arrived on the scene within five minutes of being alerted to the robbery in progress.
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