Police ask for help identifying robbery suspect, release video

Surveillance video photo from a Dec. 13 robbery at Cheers Liquor, 1414 West 6th Street. The photo, from the Dunkin' Donuts drive-thru window, shows the suspect crossing Sixth Street before he covered his face and approached the liquor store to the west. Anyone with information is asked to call Detective MT Brown at 785-830-7449 or call the CrimeStoppers Hotline at 843-TIPS(8477).

Lawrence police are asking the public for help identifying a suspect in a Dec. 13 robbery of Cheers Liquor, 1414 W. Sixth St.

Police Thursday released a photo and a surveillance video from Dunkin’ Donuts, 1400 W. Sixth St., which shows a man walking up to the liquor store.

According to Lawrence Police Sgt. Trent McKinley, a suspect — armed with a handgun — approached a clerk and demanded money, and the clerk complied.

The suspect — described as black man in his 20s, approximately 5-foot-8 with a thin build — fled on foot.

Anyone with information call Det. M.T. Brown at 785-830-7449, or the CrimeStoppers Hotline at 843-TIPS (8477).