Somerville store robbed for 3rd time in a year, just after warning of serial robber

BOSTON — Somerville police are on the hunt for a masked man who robbed a clerk at gunpoint.

The owner told Boston 25 News he has owned the store for three years and he’s just glad everybody’s okay.

The robbery was caught on camera inside the M&M Convenience store at the intersection of Main Street and Broadway.

In the video, A young man wearing a face mask, hoodie and shorts pulls out a gun and takes a wad of cash from the clerk behind the counter before leaving.

The store’s owner, Muhammed Iaqoob said it happened minutes before store closing around 10 p.m. Tuesday night. The clerk, Iaqoob’s wife, was counting the cash in the register and he was in the back stocking the coolers.

“My wife call me, ‘guy is with a gun!’ and he came up and he was pointing it at my wife and then he was pointing it at me. And he told her give all the money and I told my wife, you know, give him the money,” Iaqoob said.

Iaqoob said Somerville investigators were at the store just a week ago to warn them about a serial robber who they say could be responsible for roughly 20 robberies in the area.

It's not clear if the same man is connected to any other robberies at this time.

This is the third time Iaqoob has had an armed robbery in just the past year. He says the last time was Super Bowl Sunday and the suspect had a knife.

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