FORT MILL, SC — Police are looking for the suspect they say robbed a good Samaritan who stopped to help Thursday evening.
According to reports, Robert Gebhardt was on his way home around 7:20pm when he saw a man stranded on the side of Doby’s Bridge Road waving for help. Gebhardt told police he spoke with the man, and offered to help with what appeared to be a dead battery.
Police say Gebhardt then felt what he believed to be a gun pressed to his back. The suspect took roughly $260 in cash from his pants pocket and took off.
The suspect is described as a black male, mid 40’s, missing teeth on both sides of his top fronts, clean shaven, short hair, wearing a torn blue t-shirt, blue jeans, and black sneakers. The suspect’s vehicle is described as a tan older model Chevrolet with a dent behind the driver’s side rear door and sun damage on the hood.
Officials say he was last seen heading toward Lancaster County.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Fort Mill Police Department at 803-547-2022.
