WATCH: Masked thieves wielding hammers hit jewelry store in what expert calls 'mob-style' heist

Video captured a radical of alleged thieves fleeing a Texas outlet pursuing a jewelry heist that 1 adept called "mob-style."

On Tuesday astatine astir 12:47 p.m., officers responded to a study of a robbery successful advancement astatine Marc Robinson Jewelers astatine the Round Rock Premium Outlets, an outdoor buying promenade adjacent Austin, constabulary said.

Store employees told constabulary that a radical of suspects entered the jewelry store wielding hammers and began breaking solid show cases and stealing jewelry.

Employees told constabulary that the radical of thieves utilized capsicum spray connected an worker and a bystander earlier fleeing with a "large magnitude of stolen jewelry."

Anyone with accusation astir this incidental is encouraged to interaction Detective Dwayne Riley astatine (512) 218-6619. (FOX 7)

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Video obtained by FOX 7 captured the radical fleeing the store successful the aftermath of the attack.

All suspects were seen wearing masks and gloves arsenic they fled the scene.

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Several suspects are astatine ample aft a robbery connected April 21 astatine the Round Rock Premium Outlets. (FOX 7)

Police located the vehicle, a bluish Hyundai Sonata the suspects were described arsenic fleeing in, astatine a adjacent flat complex.

The vehicle, constabulary said, was stolen retired of the Humble, Texas, area. The recovered conveyance was taken for processing, and the lawsuit remains active.

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Anyone with accusation astir this incidental is encouraged to interaction Detective Dwayne Riley astatine (512) 218-6619.

Store employees told constabulary that aggregate suspects entered the store astatine the Road Rock Premium Outlets carrying hammers and began breaking solid show cases and stealing jewelry. (Google Maps)

International Crime Free Association Executive Director Timothy Zehring told FOX 7 that this was "mob-style execution."

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"The modus operandi that the FBI and the Jewelers Security Alliance speech about, first, is the mob-style execution of these crimes. You're mostly looking astatine betwixt 10 and 30 masked suspects that complaint into the store, sometimes with weapons, but determination are monolithic losses successful nether 60 seconds," helium said. "The terms of golden has skyrocketed lately and truthful these crimes are precise lucrative."

Zehring said these crimes are preventable by implementing a layered information approach.

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"Bollards are a large mode to forestall radical from smashing in. The adjacent happening is shatter-resistant solid and movie that you tin enactment implicit solid adjacent if you don't regenerate the glass. Think of model tinting connected your car. If they enactment this movie connected the glass, adjacent if the solid breaks, it holds intact truthful they can't get in," Zehring said.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Round Rock Police Department for further information.