Report: Man Shot by Cops in Pottstown Charged for Phoenixville 7-Eleven Stickup

A Pottstown man may have been responsible for an Oct. 17 armed robbery at the store on Nutt Road in Phoenixville, according to reports. 

According to a police report from Phoenixville Police, on Oct. 17 at 12:51 p.m., a man called police to tell them that a black man with a black scarf over his face entered the 7-Eleven at 200 Nutt Road and showed a black semi-automatic handgun. The man was described as approximately five feet, six inches tall, with a thin build, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.

The report states that the man took cash out of the drawer before leaving the store, heading toward . The man approached the 7-Eleven initally by jumping a stone wall near a tree line by Boston Market. The armed robber got away with $100 or less, according to the police report. 

A few days later on Oct. 22, according to a press release from the Montgomery County District Attorney's office, David Lamar Hill, 26, of Pottstown, allegedly entered a Pottstown Turkey Hill at approximately 1:20 a.m. 

With a white shirt over his head, Hill pointed a gun demanded money and the clerk complied, according to the district attorney's press release. However, two Pottstown officers in plain clothes were conducting surveillance on the store due to four prior convenience store robberies in Pottstown. The officers observed the gunpoint robbery, and while it was in progress both moved to go outside the store, according to the press release.

"The suspect exited the store carrying the handgun and turned toward the officers," the press release states. "Both officers fired their duty weapons. The defendant was struck in the leg, but was able to flee south on Charlotte Street." 

According to the district attorney's office, Hill was found several hours later after an extensive search. He had allegedly trespassed and broken a window at a church and police found him inside, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the leg.

During the course of the investigation following Hill's arrest, he admitted that he was responsible for seven other robberies, including the one in Phoenixville, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Pottstown Mercury. Hill was arraigned on the additional charges of robbery on Thursday, and court papers state that he's being held on $1 million bail. A preliminary hearing is set for Nov. 21 in the court of Magisterial District Judge Edward Kropp Sr.