Image shows suspect armed with rifle during brazen armored truck robbery in Philadelphia

In other news, police are looking for three suspects that robbed an armored car this afternoon at a shopping center. This was a scene at Frankfurt in Ashurner Street in Holmesburg as officers responded to the scene here. Authorities say the robbers got away with thousands of dollars and the armored car driver's gun. Action News reporter John Paul live at the Holsburg Shopping Center with more on the manhunt. John? Yeah, Rick. They are still searching for those suspects tonight. Police here back on the scene in front of the Dollar General. In fact, that armored truck was parked right where that police vehicle is right now. We just got some new information, too, Rick. In the last 10 minutes, police told us those three robbers tried to get into the Brinks truck, but they couldn't because of the security system. I just came up here to go shopping and I'm like, well, what is going on? A shocking robbery in broad daylight. Take a look at this photo was taken this afternoon outside of a Dollar General on Frankfurt Avenue in Holmesburg. You see three masked men wearing gloves standing behind an armored truck. One of them holding a rifle. I looked up. I seen some guys mulling around over here and then they they spread out in a line and I thought that's weird. We talked to the man who took the picture. We're not showing his face to protect his identity. He says it took him a minute before he realized he was watching an armed robbery in the middle of the day. One of the mouths did have a long gun. Officials tell us three masked men managed to steal around $3,000 from the driver. You can see he has an empty holster. Police say the men also stole his gun before driving away in this silver Honda Accord. They got in the car and drove out peace very calm. So that's why I think they were kind of pros. You know, they didn't speed away. This is at least the third armored truck robbery in the last two weeks in our area. Sources tell Action News on June 21st, suspects stole $1.5 million in Port Richmond. On the 26th, an armored truck was robbed outside of the Aldi on the 5200 block of Whitaker Avenue in Somerdale. Earlier in June, robbers got away with around $300,000 in Queens, New York. And in May, an undetermined amount was taken in Newcastle, Delaware. There's no word if all these are connected, but people in this area are wondering. If you're hitting them like that, you know what their schedule is. you know what time they're going to arrive, everything. Yeah, police are looking into the possibility that some of these could possibly be connected. Rick, the good here, good news here tonight is that no one was injured. We're live in Holmesburg, John Paul, Channel 6 Action News. Rick. All right, John, thank you for that