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Authorities say a masked man with a gun walked into Country Village Pharmacy on East Main Street in East Islip, ordered everyone on the ground and demanded painkillers.

The employees complied and the man fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of medication, according to authorities. The employees were not injured.

Pharmacy employee Jovan Ayoub says the gunman cocked his weapon and pointed it at him while he was on his knees in the store.

"I'm thinking Medford pharmacy massacre part 2. That's what I'm thinking," Ayoub told News 12, referencing the murder of four people by David Laffer inside Haven Drugs Pharmacy nearly three years ago. Laffer was robbing the pharmacy to fuel his and his wife's addiction to painkillers.

The suspect was described as a white male, approximately 25 to 30 years old, 5 feet 10 inches with a thin mustache. Police say the man was wearing sunglasses, a dark-hooded sweatshirt and a red bandana around the lower part of his face.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.

Authorities say a masked man with a gun walked into Country Village Pharmacy on East Main Street in East Islip, ordered everyone on the ground and demanded painkillers.    The employees complied and the

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Probably needed if it was a normal December weekend. So we have definitely steady rain all day today tonight though. It just translates into a scattered shower. So the worst of the rain is during the daytime. And then from a work week, we are getting a bit cooler, so steady showers, a big big plume of light showers and fog just continues to push through the island even at noon time. So you see all morning we're in the green. So rain is falling and then around 23 o'clock, maybe some of this rain stops falling a little or at least it gets a little lighter and it's a little bit more like a mist, but it's gloomy all day. There's no sunshine today. It is tucked way above the clouds and even 89 o'clock, we still have that quick little stray shower risk at that point though. You probably won't need the umbrella. Monday morning. Looks ok. We have sunshine in the morning. The after afternoon, clouds are gonna come back our direction. Overall, the temperatures look pretty good on Monday today, the temperatures look ok. We're around 50 which is what you're also stepping out to this morning, but obviously the rain makes it feel a lot colder. Now, over the course of the whole day, we're picking up about a quarter of an inch of rain to maybe three quarters of an inch. That's not a huge amount, but it's going to be relentless. Just that drizzle. It's terrible when that kind of situation happens. But for a morning commute on Monday, it's looking nice and quiet and the afternoon is near 50 in this time with sunshine. The general trend is actually warmer than average temperatures through the middle of the month. So that should turn off any risk of snow in the forecast. In fact, even though we have cooler weather, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, it's totally dry there. And by the time rain comes back next week it's in the fifties. All right.

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Suspect wanted in robbery at Country Village Pharmacy in East Islip