A bandit hit the Citbank at 850 Bridgeport Avenue Wednesday, using a note to get an unspecified amount of cash.
There were no injuries reported.
Police at the scene following the 3:30 p.m. incident said they are searching for a suspect who is light-skinned black man described as six feet tall. The man did not display a weapon, police said. He handed the teller a note.
He fled in a blue-ish gray, late 1990s model Mitsubishi Galant. Police did not know whether he was the driver or a passenger of the vehicle.
Police are investigating what spokesman Lt. Robert Kozlowski called a possible connection with a robbery an hour earlier of a TD Bank in Waterbury, and another robbery about a week ago in Stratford.
For witnesses, it’s a lesson that bank robberies can be subdued affairs.
Selena Nichols looked up from her laptop computer at a table in the Panera Bread store, next door, and could barely believe a bank robbery had happened while she sat in front of the window facing the parking lot.
“I didn’t even know it was going on,” Nichols said, explaining she had been there all afternoon.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Shelton police department at (203) 924‑1544.
