Commerce bank robbery

COMMERCE - A branch of United Community Bank was robbed Thursday morning in Commerce.

Commerce Police Chief John Gaissert said it happened about 9:30 at the UCB branch on Homer Road.

Gaissert said the robber was a black man, 5'8"-5'10" tall, weighing 220-240 pounds, wearing a black sweatshirt and "what looked like gauze" over his face.

He said the suspect may have fled in a "red vehicle." Investigators are not sure of that, however, but witnesses told police they saw a red vehicle leaving the area around the bank at a high rate of speed about the time of the robbery, heading toward Commerce and there was no other information on the vehicle, such as make and model.

Gaissert said not one was injured in the holdup and the robber escaped with an undisclosed amount of money.