Familiar customer reportedly holds up gas station
By AUSTIN L. MILLER
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Published: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 12:16 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 12:17 p.m.
OCALA – A regular customer of the Chevron gas station at 1327 E. Silver Springs Blvd. reportedly held up a clerk there Tuesday evening.
According to Ocala police, David Phok, a store employee and son of the owners, told officers the woman entered the store and filled out a Western Union order form. After several minutes, she asked for assistance. As he approached, she pushed him in an attempt to get behind the counter.
The clerk said he pushed a panic button.
The woman told him she had a gun. Although Phok did not see a weapon, he allowed the woman to come behind the counter and open the cash register, from which she took $40 to $60 in cash.
Phok said she then got into a beige Honda and left.
Phalla Thing, the store’s owner, gave police a photo identification card showing the suspect’s picture. The copy was maintained by the store when the suspect came in to cash a paycheck.
The suspect has been identified as Leila Ann Shoukry, 27, who is approximately 5 foot 2, with brown hair, and who last was seen wearing a blue and yellow collared shirt and blue jeans.
Police also obtained surveillance pictures of the robbery...
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