3 rob McDonald's in downtown LR, police say

2 Jacksonville men arrested; third man sought

Little Rock police have arrested two men and are seeking a third in the early morning robbery of a downtown McDonald's restaurant.

Officers were called about 2:10 a.m. Wednesday to the McDonald's at 701 Broadway St., where workers said three men had entered and had tried to force the shift manager at gunpoint to open the safe, according to a Little Rock Police Department report.

The worker was having difficulty opening the safe, and the men became frustrated and ran away without taking any money, the report states.

When officers arrived, a restaurant worker pointed to a nearby parking lot and said the robbers were driving away. Police saw a Kia Spectra leaving a parking lot at Eighth and Spring streets with its headlights off and pulled the car over, the report states. The driver, Christopher Murray, 24, of Jacksonville stopped the car while a black man dressed all in black fled east through an alley, police said. Officers chased the man but lost him at Ninth and Center streets.

While searching the area, officers spotted Christopher Davis, 23, of Jacksonville hiding in a Dumpster near Eighth and Louisiana streets and arrested him after a brief foot chase. Officers weren't sure whether Davis was the man who had fled.

Davis and Murray were arrested and charged with aggravated robbery; Davis was also charged with misdemeanor fleeing.

Police are still looking for a third man, who they describe as black, about 20 to 23 years old, about 6 feet and 180 pounds. He was wearing a black hoodie and black pants at the time of the robbery.

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