GERMANTOWN, Tenn. — Germantown police are looking for the suspect that robbed an elderly couple inside their home Saturday night.
Police said a woman went to her home, in the 6900 Block of Great Oaks, around 7:47 p.m. when an armed man approached her at the door.
“I just didn’t know what was going to happen. I was scared. I was truly scared,” the woman, who asked to be anonymous, said. “He shoved me in the house, he had a gun pointed at me immediately and told me to lie down on the floor.”
The woman said her 85-year-old husband was also forced down on the kitchen floor at gunpoint.
Police said the gunman grabbed her purse and took off running from inside the house.
The woman does not recall how the robber looked because his face was covered.
The victims told WREG there are some things about Saturday night they will never forget.
“He wasn’t a talker. He wasn’t nice either, but he wasn’t mean. He was determined,” the woman explained.
“We heard the police cars and everything else last night,” Lisa McMahon, who lives nearby, said.
There are some neighbors who said the robber did not only take off with a purse. People, like McMahon, said the gunman stole the community’s peace of mind.
“It makes me worry for my parent’s safety, and my safety, and my daughter’s safety,” McMahon said.
Other people, who live in the neighborhood, said the robbery will force them to be more vigilant, but they are not surprised the incident happened.
“There’s not a whole lot you can do about it,” Tim Long said. “This is the — Unfortunately, this is the world we live in.”
The elderly couple told WREG they wanted to stop living in fear.
“I want him caught,” the female victim said. “I truly do because I’m scared. I’m frightened.”
The robber’s car is an older model pick-up truck with layered colors of blue, white, and blue.
The car has silver trim at the top of the bed of the truck.
If you have any information about the crime, call The Germantown Police Department at 901-757-2274.
