Cedar Rapids Police are investigating three armed robberies that have occurred since Sunday, November 12th. Authorities think the suspect may have also committed a robbery in Hiawatha this week.

The robber is described as a black male, between 6'0" and 6'2", 200 to 240 pounds. At the time of the robbery he was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, white mask, and armed with a silver handgun.

The robberies in Cedar Rapids have occurred at the following locations:

• Sunday, November 12th - 5:44 p.m. - Discount Liquor, 2933 1st Avenue SE

• Monday, November 13th - 7:28 p.m. - Dairy Queen, 2100 6th Street SW

• Wednesday, November 15th - 10:25 p.m. - Smokin' Joes, 2315 Mt. Vernon Road SE

Anyone with information on the identity of the suspect is encouraged to call the Cedar Rapids Police Department at (319) 286-5491 or Linn County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-CS-CRIME or text CRIMES (274637) and in the message/subject, type 5227 and your tip.

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A man with a gun robbed a Cedar Rapids Dairy Queen earlier this week.

In some surveillance video, a masked man points a gun at a worker. The workers open the cash registers and give him money.

It wasn't the only robbery police believe the man may have committed.

They think he's the man who also robbed a Quick Mart.

Cedar Rapids police say the robbery happened Monday night at the Dairy Queen on the southwest side of the city. Hiawatha police say a man with a similar description robbed the Quick Mart on Robins Road Tuesday night.

Dairy Queen employee Taylor Katz was talking to a regular customer at the Dairy Queen on the Southwest side Monday night.

"He came in and had his hands in his pockets and pulled a gun out and asked for all the money, so my first instinct is I see the gun and I jump right over the register and I take all the money and I give it to him," Katz said.

She describes the man as a 6 foot tall black man wearing a white mask over his face. A description almost identical to the one Mariah Oliver, an employee at the Quick Mart said.

"It was a horrible horrible experience," Oliver said.

She says it was terrifying having someone point a gun at her, especially because she was alone Tuesday night.

"We were pretty slow when it happened I was walking outside and the door was already propped open he walked up to me we met at the door I said I would 'be right with you,' and he said 'no you won't' and he put the gun up to me and asked me for all the money," Oliver said, "So I went around the counter he put the gun on me again."

Now both women are just hoping to get some peace of mind.

"I don't feel as safe with him out there just knowing that he's out there," Oliver said.

The Dairy Queen closes for the season on Saturday but has had a new lobby policy since the robbery. It now closes a few hours earlier at 5 p.m.

"It's definitely uneasy every night I just feel my whole body just get so anxious I just want him caught and like and I think it would definitely ease all of our minds," Katz said.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Cedar Rapids and Hiawatha police.