Shake Shack worker allegedly calls out before robbing own restaurant, returns in uniform 2 days later

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An Arizona Shake Shack worker is facing charges aft allegedly robbing his ain edifice astatine gunpoint, locking 2 co-workers successful a walk-in cooler and past returning to enactment successful azygous conscionable 2 days later.

Keondre Simmons, 33, allegedly called retired of enactment astatine the Shake Shack astatine Kierland Commons successful Phoenix astir midnight connected Aug. 3 earlier showing up astatine the edifice aboriginal that greeting to perpetrate the robbery, according to tribunal documents reviewed by FOX 10 Phoenix.

Investigators responding to the equipped robbery learned that an worker opened a rear transportation doorway aft proceeding a doorbell and believing a scheduled transportation had arrived.

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Keondre Simmons

Keondre Simmons, 33, is accused of robbing the Shake Shack wherever helium worked astatine gunpoint earlier returning to the edifice successful azygous 2 days later, according to tribunal documents. (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office; iStock)

"[The employee] opened the doorway aft proceeding the transportation bell, believing a scheduled transportation had arrived," tribunal documents state.

"When the doorway opened, the fishy pointed a firearm astatine [the employee], ordered him inside, and escorted him astatine gunpoint toward the walk-in cooler. The fishy forced [the employee] wrong and locked the cooler door."

Police said the fishy past forced the on-duty manager into the bureau and ordered him to unfastened the store's safe.

"[The on-duty manager] unlocked the harmless and, nether menace of firearm, removed astir $2,800 successful mixed denominations and placed it into a achromatic weapon case-style instrumentality the fishy carried," constabulary wrote. "The fishy subsequently forced [the on-duty manager] into the walk-in cooler with [the employee], and successfully locked the door."

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Investigators said some victims yet managed to flight the cooler, but the fishy returned moments later, escorted them to the bureau and ordered them to kneel astatine gunpoint.

"The fishy took some victims' cellphones and the bureau landline, past destroyed them by throwing them into a descend filled with water. The fishy past exited the concern done the rear transportation door," constabulary wrote.

Investigators aboriginal identified Simmons arsenic the suspect, according to the tribunal documents.

Two days aft the robbery, Simmons allegedly returned to the Shake Shack wearing his enactment uniform, wherever constabulary arrested him.

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Outside a Shake Shack restaurant.

A Shake Shack worker allegedly stole astir $2,800 from the edifice astatine Kierland Commons successful Phoenix aft holding 2 co-workers astatine gunpoint, according to tribunal documents. (iStock)

Simmons aboriginal told investigators that helium "discarded the covering worn during the incident, and a firearm is wrong his residence," according to tribunal documents.

Simmons faces charges of equipped robbery, aggravated battle and kidnapping.

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He is scheduled to look successful tribunal Aug. 25.

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