MONTGOMERY COUNTY - Police are asking for the public's help to find a "dangerous criminal" after a car crash quickly escalated into an armed robbery Monday morning.The incident began when a man driving erratically on York Road abruptly turned in front of another car causing a minor crash, according to authorities.
Police say the man immediately got out of his car, pointed a gun at a female victim, demanded her cell phone, then fled on Davisville Road.MORE HEADLINES:"Shocked but I haven't heard anything like that around here before," said a man that FOX 29's Shawnette Wilson showed the pictures to as he left a Wawa in the area this evening.
He says it's concerning. "Especially in the morning. Monday morning. Kind of crazy," he said. Authorities describe the suspected vehicle as a silver Honda Accord with a distinguishable dent on the rear passenger side, "ventvisor" on the front passenger side window and heavily tinted windows. "I just tell everybody be careful and always be aware of your surroundings especially when it's a female," said Tanisha Carroll as she looked at the pictures of the suspect and the car. "Some people don't have anything to lose and when you don't have anything to lose, you don't have respect for anybody else's life."Police say it is unclear if the driver and victim had any prior contact on the road such a road rage, or if it was just a set-up to get the victim to pull over. .