Denver police have arrested two brothers suspected of shooting a Lakewood woman in the face with a BB gun and robbing several other Denver stores at gunpoint.
Rodney Mitchell, 19, and Dartanian Mitchell, 33, were arrested at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, after officers spotted then in the parking lot of the Blockbuster video store on Colfax Avenue and Corona Street, said Det. John White, a spokesman for the Denver Police Department.
Between Nov. 20 and Nov. 30, the pair is accused of robbing four Denver businesses at gunpoint and demanding cash.
Dates and locations of those robberies were not immediately available.
Both men are being held in the Denver jail on suspicion of aggravated robbery.
Before today’s arrest, Dartanain Mitchell had several outstanding warrants out of Mesa County, including burglary, theft, criminal mischief, according to court records. Rodney Mitchell was involved in two Denver robberies earlier this year.
Both men are suspected in a robbery investigation in Lakewood.
On Nov. 23, the two are suspected of robbing a 7-Eleven convenience store at Colfax Avenue and Simms Street, said Steve Davis, spokesman for the Lakewood Police Department.
The two allegedly entered the store around 6:30 p.m. and put a candy bar on the check-out counter. When the female clerk opened the cash drawer to make change, the two jumped over the counter and waved BB guns at the woman.
One of them shot the woman in the face when she tried to reason with them.
The pair cleaned out the cash drawer and continued to fire the BB gun at the woman as she tried to run away.
“The fact that they were BB guns makes no difference,” Davis said. “The punishment will be the same as if it were a real gun.”
Authorities are not releasing photos of the suspects at this time, citing the ongoing investigation.
Jordan Steffen: 303-954-1794 or jsteffen@denverpost.com
