Updated: Police Investigating Armed Robbery on Myrtle Street

2:30 p.m. update — A Myrtle Street resident who asked not to be named said a nanny was dropping a child off for piano lessons at a home on the street when she was approached by a man with a gun demanding money. 

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Alexandria police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at approximately 10 a.m. Thursday in the unit block of E. Myrtle Street near its intersection with Braddock Road.

Alexandria Police Department spokesperson Mark Bergin said at least one person was robbed in an incident where a gun was displayed.

There were no injuries, he said.

Officers remained with the victim around noon Thursday.

No other information was immediately available. An investigation is ongoing.

On Monday, Del Ray resident Marquita Thompson and her fiancé, Miguel Crouch, were robbed at gunpoint near the intersections E. Howell and Leslie avenues.

Bergin said it was too early to tell if the two incidents are related. There is no known connection between the two cases outside of the similarity of events and their geographic proximity.  

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