Nearly two months after a man smashed into a Mission Street McDonald's, menaced staffers, and plundered the safe, the San Francisco Police Department has yet to track him down. Now they're seeking the public's help to find the suspect, by releasing surveillance video of the crime.
According to a press release sent by SFPD Wednesday evening, it was 3:30 a.m. on November 8 when the man you see in the video below "smashed the front glass door of a commercial restaurant on the 5400 block of Mission Street."
That restaurant, reports NBC Bay Area, was the McDonald's at 5454 Mission Street.
According the police, after the man crashed through the McDonald's door, he gestured with "what appears to be a handgun covered under a black cloth," and "ordered all the employees to the back of the store, had them sit on the ground, and demanded one employee to open the main safe."
After robbing the safe, police say that he ordered that same employee "to open the cash registers" and stole the cash from them as well.
At around 1:10 in the video, you can hear the suspect's voice as he urges haste from one of the McDonald's staffers, who was assisting him as he robbed the registers.
"Hurry, hurry, I haven't got all day," he says.
The entire caper took about seven minutes, police say, and netted the miscreant over $1200.
SFPD describes the suspect as a 30-40 year old black male, standing about 6'2" and weighing about 250 lbs. He was last seen wearing a black hoodie, a red bandana to cover his face, and blue pants. He was carrying a blue shoulder bag, police say.
If you have any information on this crime, SFPD asks that you contact their anonymous tip line at 415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the text message with "SFPD."