Little Rock store robbery involves firearm

An armed man robbed a Dollar General store in Little Rock on Sunday evening, a police department spokesman said.

Little Rock police were dispatched at around 5:55 p.m. to a report of a robbery in progress at the Dollar General located at 4748 Springer Blvd., south of Interstate 440, according to an online dispatch log.

Officer Richard Hilgeman, a Little Rock Police Department spokesman, said a man with a firearm robbed the store and left in a four-door vehicle.

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Hilgeman described the robber as a black male who weighed approximately 300 pounds. No further information on the robbery was available Sunday night.

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