Eyewitness says Christine's Place robbers were armed with axe, knife
An eyewitness told CBC News he is shaken up after an armed robbery at a bar in St. John's Sunday night.
Lindsay Little said he and his partner, Valerie Rogers, were in Christine's Place Pub on LeMarchant Road when two men went in with weapons shortly after midnight.
Little said the armed robbers stormed into the bar looking for money and liquor.
"Well, two fellers come in and one feller smashed an axe on top of the bar and demanded money," Little said.
"Another guy had a knife and he said, 'Well, we wants your money.' So the bartender had given them money, and it sort of, the money went all over the floor. So he stayed there picking it up and the guy with the axe just took off."
Little said a patron outside the bar called police and they were on the scene within a few minutes and apprehended the man carrying the knife
According to Little, the man with the knife seemed relatively calm and said he wouldn't hurt anyone, but the man with the axe was very aggressive and threatening.
"He got chop marks in the countertop on the bar. He come in, he put the axe part down through the bar in two places," Little said.
"He was iced up on some kind of drug or something. He was like, he was wired on something, right?"
Scary situation
Little said Rogers was behind the bar paying their tab when the robbers entered the bar. The bartender got in front of Rogers as if to protect her, Little said.
Little and Rogers are from Bonavista but go to Christine's Place when they visit St. John's.
They know the staff at the pub, and Little said the bartender told him she was so disturbed by the incident she wasn't able to sleep that night.
"Everyone was shocked," Little said, adding this is the first time to his knowledge anything like this has happened at the pub.
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said a 44-year-old man was arrested after a short foot chase early Monday morning, but they are still looking for the second man.
Police have not confirmed the weapons involved, but said a firearm was not used and there were no injuries.
