Police investigating convenience store robbery in Kitchener

The Waterloo Regional Police Service headquarters at 200 Maple Grove Road in Cambridge, Ont. was photographed on July 7, 2025. (Dan Lauckner/CTV News)

The Waterloo Regional Police Service is looking for a suspect who robbed a convenience store in Kitchener.

Officers were called to the Highland Road East and Spadina Road East area on Monday around 9:40 a.m. They were told a man in his 20s walked into the store, threatened employees and used racial slurs before running off.

The suspect was described as a white man wearing a red winter jacket with fur on the hood, grey sweatpants, a black shirt, a black backpack and a baseball cap.