Lee County sheriff’s deputies are seeking two suspects in connection with a Thursday night armed robbery at a video bingo parlor on Hawkins Avenue.

Deputies responded to The Showroom at 3803 Hawkins Ave. around 8:15 p.m. Thursday after receiving a report that two suspects came into the business and one held the clerk and others at gunpoint while the other took a lock box and cash from the register.

The sheriff’s office provided surveillance stills from inside the business which shows the suspects covering their faces. After the robbery, the suspects left the area on foot. Nobody was injured.

Authorities are asking anyone with information to call the Lee County Sheriff’s Office at (919) 775-5531 or the department’s tip line at (919) 718-4577.

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