A masked gunman who pistol whipped an employee at a McDonalds restaurant early on Friday morning, is now recovering from a dog bite after being apprehended by a K-9.
Ocoee police say, 23-year-old Marco Romulus Simplice, along with another armed, masked gunman, entered the McDonalds at 11131 West Colonial Drive around 3:00 a.m.
Simplice pistol whipped an employee before forcing the manager to open the safe at gunpoint.
Police said, the second gunman forced a cashier to empty the cash drawer and collected the cell phones of all four employees, before fleeing the store in a silver Chrysler.
Cops located the getaway vehicle in the parking lot of Soong Thai at 9948 West Colonial Drive a short while later. Three men were spotted running toward a waiting car across the street in the Best Buy parking lot.
A short police pursuit ended with the vehicle crashing into a fence at the end of a cul-de-sac on St. Lawrence Street, investigators said.
Police set up a perimeter and an Orange County K-9 located Simplice hiding near the intersection of Willowwood Street and Bright Meadown Drive. He suffered a minor dog bite.
Cops found two firearms and the cash stole from the McDonalds inside the vehicle.
The second gunman remains at large.
Anyone with information concerning this crime is asked to contact the Ocoee Police Department at 407-905-3160 or Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS (8477) / www.crimeline.org
