Anchorage Daily News

Police are looking for two gunmen and a getaway driver who held up a Shell gas station in Mountain View early Thursday morning.

The masked robbers burst into the station in the 3600 block of Mountain View Drive about 12:40 a.m. wearing hooded sweatshirts and bandanas over their faces.

With pistols drawn, the men grabbed an undisclosed amount of cash and ran off. No one was injured.

"They didn't shoot, but if you are in possession of a gun it doesn't matter where it's pointed," police Lt. Dave Parker said.

Witnesses including the clerk and people outside the store told police the robbers ran to a tan extended cab Chevrolet or GMC pickup that was parked in the road on Price Street, just north of the station.

The gunmen were described as young male Pacific Islanders, one standing at 5 feet 9 inches tall and the other at 5 feet 7 inches.

The driver of the getaway truck was described as a large Pacific Islander male in his late 30s with shoulder-length hair. He was wearing a red ball cap, police said.

Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call police at 786-8900 or Crimestoppers at 561-STOP.

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