Fayetteville

police this week are investigating an armed robbery that was reported

Wednesday evening at the Pit Stop North convenience store on North Glynn

Street.

The victim

told police that the offender used a brown-handled semi-automatic handgun

to steal $85 in scratch-off lottery tickets, according to a police report

filed on the incident. The crime actually took place between 10:30 and

11 p.m., but police weren't called until approximately 2:15 a.m., the

report indicates.

It is not clear

whether the victim was tied up, which could have possibly caused the delay

in reporting time.

The victim

was not injured and the incident was not captured on surveillance video,

said police spokesman Lt. Tom Kirkbride.

The report

listed a black pickup truck as being a vehicle involved in the incident,

but that allegation hasn't been confirmed by police, Kirkbride said.