Two men robbed seven staff members at gunpoint at the Capitol Hill branch of the Oklahoma County Metropolitan Library System in Oklahoma City March 25.
The pair followed a delivery driver through the back entrance into the technical processing department at about 8:15 a.m., before the library opened, said Public Affairs Officer Julia Fresonke. One of the men, who carried a gun, ordered the victims to hand over their valuables. The robbers then fled with a wallet and two purses. A homeless man subsequently found some of the wallet's contents and turned them over to authorities.
One staff member, who was pistol-whipped by the gunman, was treated at a hospital and released. Fresonke said that the branch was closed for the day, and counselors were brought in.
Posted March 29, 1999.