OC: Suspect Charged In Gunpoint Robbery

OCEAN CITY — A Cambridge man was charged with armed robbery and first-degree assault last weekend after allegedly holding up two other men with a handgun at a midtown condo.

Around 10 a.m. last Sunday, Ocean City Police responded to the area of Bayview Lane for a reported armed robbery that had already occurred. The officer met with two victims who told police they had met an individual, later identified as Brandon Fooks, 24, and had been hanging out with Fooks and some of their friends for about an hour when Fooks offered to sell one of the victims some tennis shoes.

The victim told police Fooks drove him and his friend to a condo building in the ocean block at 63rd Street. Fooks told one of the victims to wait in the car while he went inside with the other victim to get the tennis shoes. Once Fooks and the first victim were in an elevator inside the condo building, Fooks allegedly pulled out a dark-colored handgun and pointed it at the victim’s head.

The victim said he attempted to take the handgun from Fooks and the two fought briefly in the elevator before Fooks subdued the victim by striking him in the face with the handgun. The victim told police Fooks then racked the slide on the handgun and told the victim “give me the stuff in your pockets or I’m going to shoot you,” according to police reports.

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