DQ worker makes drive-through call for help during robbery

A Dairy Queen employee used the restaurant’s drive-through intercom to summon help during an armed robbery Saturday night, Wichita police said.

Sgt. Wendell Nicholson said police were called at 9:30 p.m. Saturday to the Dairy Queen at 5300 E. Central after a man who appeared to be in his 20s, wearing a Wichita State hoodie, robbed restaurant workers at gunpoint.

Outside, a 38-year-old woman was in the drive through, where “she was told by one of the employees to call 911 because they were being robbed,” Nicholson said.

But the suspect left on foot in an unknown direction and with an undisclosed amount of cash before police could get there. No one was injured in the robbery, he said.

This story was originally published August 7, 2016 at 2:38 PM with the headline "DQ worker makes drive-through call for help during robbery."