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Robber storms into N. Fort Myers store armed with rifle

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Authorities say they caught the man they think is responsible for robbing the Circle K convenience store on Pondella Road.

Twenty-three-year-old Christopher Davies of Cape Coral is accused of entering the store just before midnight on Sunday, holding a clerk at gunpoint, then getting away with a bag of money.

"I have a lot of friends that work at that gas station, and this scares me," said Amanda Flynn.

She lives at an apartment complex just across the way from the Circle K. She says she frequents the store and wonders why a person would rob the store with such serious firepower.

"What's the point?" asked Flynn.

Trish Routte with CrimeStoppers says it's peculiar that a person would rob a store with such a high-powered weapon in lieu of a more compact, concealed weapon.

"This guy came in with a very large weapon," Routte said. "[He] came in very matter-of-fact, very strong presence, so he knew what he was doing."

Authorities arrested Davies less than 12 hours after the robbery nearly two miles away at a home.

They credit a significant amount of tips from the public in helping to arrest Davies. Social media and television were the primary sources of information tipsters named in how they saw the surveillance photos of the man holding the rifle.

"Anytime we have good surveillance photos and we have fairly good ones in this case, someone knows this guy," Routte said.

Davies is looking at armed robbery and cocaine possession charges. If convicted, he'll have two more felonies added to his criminal history.

Looking back to 2008, we learned Davies went to jail on burglary charges when he was just 14 years old. CrimeStoppers also notes as an adult, he was incarcerated for assault, disorderly intoxication, loitering, and prowling.

He’s also spent roughly a year and a half in state prison for criminal mischief.

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