A gas station robbery is not unusual, but what’s happening at one gas station in the high desert is very unusual.
That’s because investigators believe the same man has robbed the same Shell station in Victorville three times in the past month.
Each time the man has robbed this gas station, he has headed right toward that cluster of homes, and now investigators are wondering if he might live in that neighborhood.
On surveillance footage, a man wearing a gray hoodie and black mask hurries into the shell gas station. He immediately points a handgun at the clerk.
Terrified, the woman puts her hands up as the robber calmly walks around the counter. He orders the clerk to put cash into his backpack, as well as lottery tickets.
But he wants more money, so he tells her to empty out a nearby change drawer before he takes more lottery tickets and then runs off.
"If someone was to confront him as he was leaving the business after a robbery we don't know what could happen," says Det. Paul Solorio of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
Solorio says this same man may be responsible for two other similar robberies, all three of them within the past month.
In each case, the suspect wears the same black ski mask.
"With red piping around the eyes and mouth," Solorio says.
In each case the robber headed toward the nearby neighborhood of Eagle Ranch.
"It's a little scary that he's in this area and he hasn't been caught yet," says Eagle Ranch resident Heather Lasater.
Lasater is worried the robber may be living in her neighborhood.
"I check the doors twice, make sure they're locked,” she says. “I make sure to have my dog outside."
Investigators say the suspect may not live here, and might only be parking a getaway car in the neighborhood.
But some homeowners are still keeping an eye out, just in case.
"I'm a firm believer of neighborhood watch,” Lasater says. “We’re all neighbors. We'll help each other out - that's what we're supposed to do."
