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Jeremy Gray — The Birmingham News

November 28, 2009, 6:12PM

A man with a handgun robbed the Winn-Dixie at 3925 Crosshaven Drive in the Cahaba Heights community of Vestavia Hills shortly after 10:30 p.m. Friday.

The gunman led three employees and a customer into the store’s office, where he made a store manager open the safe. The robber took more than $4,800.

Birmingham police also had several recent crimes involving guns reported:

– Someone shot Tamiko Jackson’s car around 3 a.m. Friday in the 6800 block of Fifth Court North.

– Two men with a gun robbed Glenda Bester, 30, of her purse at 1:20 a.m. Friday as she got out of her vehicle at an apartment complex in the 4300 block of Second Avenue South.

– Two men with a gun robbed Christian Pippens, 18, of Midfield around 11 p.m. Thursday, taking his car, wallet, necklace and $1,000 worth of clothes in a parking lot in the 100 block of Fourth Street North. They also made him take off and give them the shoes and pants he was wearing.

– Someone shot at Paschal Rushton McArthur’s residence and vehicle in the 300 block of Fourth Avenue West around 5 a.m. Thursday. McArthur, who was not home at the time, told police he believes he knows who did it.

News staff writer Erin Stock compiled the reports from Birmingham police.