ST. LOUIS • Bruce Franks Jr., an incoming Missouri state representative, was carjacked at gunpoint Monday night, and the attackers got away with Franks’ cellphones and his personal handgun that he left inside the car, police say.

Franks said he was robbed about 7:20 p.m. in the parking lot of the Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street, by two men. One of the robbers was armed with a gun. Franks was unharmed, but his car, two cellphones and a black .40-caliber Smith and Wesson gun were taken by the robbers, police said.

“I’m good,” he said in a telephone interview early Tuesday. “Just a little shaken up, but I’m fine.” On social media, he said in part: “Glad to be alive.”

Franks said he was at the Tap Room for a holiday party. He was sitting in his car in the parking lot returning a call when someone suddenly opened his car door, he said.

“I looked up and the guy had a gun and he told me to get out,” he said. “I got out and he pointed a gun at me and told me, ‘Get the hell out of here.’”

Franks ran into the Tap Room, where a friend called police. He said the robbers drove off with his phones and other possessions inside the car.