Security footage of robbery shared by Winnipeg pawn shop owner [Video]

A Winnipeg pawn shop owner is speaking out after a violent robbery at his McPhillips Street location.

In his 25 years on the job, Pawn Traders owner Richard Doering told CTV News on Friday that he has never seen crime this bad.

“Having shotguns and machetes at a retail theft, that’s another level,” said Doering.

Doering shared security video with CTV News of the two-and-a-half-minute ordeal from Remembrance Day.

The video, from different angles, shows a customer standing at the front of the shop with a staff member. The suspects burst in, hop over the counter, one of them is pointing a shotgun at the employees, another has a machete.

“They pointed a shotgun and a machete at my two employees and says, ‘Don’t move or we’re going to shoot,'” said Doering.

They appear to take cash from the front and while holding the staff at gunpoint, suspects go in …