La Mirada Sheriff's Deputies converged on the Radio Shack in La Mirada Tuesday evening shortly after a armed robbery occured

La Mirada~The Radio Shack in La Mirada was robbed last night.

Around 8:15 p.m., a man approached the cashier with miscellaneous electronic items in his hands and showed the cashier a black handgun in his waistband, according to a Sheriff's broadcast of the incident.

The broadcast also indicated the cashier feared for his life and surrendered the entire cash register drawer to the suspect containing around $300.00.

Witnesses and employees said the man was white and seemed to be in his 50's and was last seen running toward Adelfa Drive, away from he store.

Nobody was injured in the incident.

Moments after the incident, the manager and employee of the store told the La Mirada Blog they were unable to comment.

When contacted by this website, on-duty watch commander for the Norwalk Sheriff's, Lieutenant McDaniel acknowledged to us there was a robbery, but they were still working out the details.

Check out our on-scene video coverage here.

Read more details as events unfolded on our Twitter feed here.

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