Slidell police are looking for a man who allegedly used a gun to rob the Payless Shoe Store on Tyler Street Monday afternoon.

According to Slidell police, officers got the call of the armed robbery around 3 p.m. Monday. The clerk at the store told police the suspect, a black male in his late to mid twenties came into the store and asked for help in finding infant shoes. After he picked out a pair of infant-sized sandals, the suspect went to the cashier. As he handed over a $10 bill, the suspect allegedly took out a black semi-automatic handgun and told the clerk to give him all the money in the cash register. The clerk complied and then the suspect demanded the employee go to the store’s safe. The victim obeyed, opened the safe and handed the suspect an unknown amount of money. The suspect ran out of the store toward Gause Boulevard. Police suspect that the man might be staying in one of the local motels on Tyler and Yaupon drives.

The suspect is described as a black male, in his late 20’s with no facial hair. He is about 5 feet 9 inches tall, and weighs between 170 and 180 pounds. He has long thin dreadlocks with colored rubber band at the end of the dreadlocks. He has a tattoo on his inner forearm in some sort of red ink. Police do not know on which arm the tattoo is located. The suspect has a thin muscular build with defined arm muscles. He was last seen wearing a long black undershirt with grey T-shirt over it, baggy pants and black tennis shoes. He was also wearing a black baseball cap with some sort of sports symbol on it.

Composite drawing from the Slidell Police Department of a suspected armed robber who used a gun to rob the Payless shoe store in Slidell Monday afternoon.

Anyone with any information on the suspect can call the Slidell Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division at 646-4347.