50 year old Travis Lamont Gathers of Rock Hill was arrested at an apartment complex in Lake Wylie last night. Gathers is suspected of six armed robberies. It is believed Gathers began the armed robbery spree on June 28th by robbing the BoJangles in Lake Wylie. In that case, at gun point, he robbed the business of money, robbed employees of their cell phones, and then made the employees get into the walk-in cooler before he ran out of the restaurant. The next robbery occured July 10th at a Wendy’s restaurant in Fort Mill. On July 12, 2020 he robbed the Wendy’s restaurant in Lake Wylie. In these cases witnesses say he used a gun to commit the robberies. On July 19th Gathers, used a knife, to rob the McDonalds in Lake Wylie. In total Gathers stole $6,350 from the restaurants. Gathers was booked into the York County Detention Center and is currently waiting on a bond hearing and possibly more charges.
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