Comment on Armed robbery reported at Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School parking lot

A cellphone was stolen Monday afternoon from a Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School student after she was approached in the school’s parking lot by a young male who displayed a handgun.According to a Cedar Rapids police media release, the CRPD resource officer at Kennedy High School was informed Monday of an armed robbery that had taken place in the south parking lot of the school at approximately 3:34 p.m.It was reported to the officer that at an 18-year-old female student had been approached near her vehicle in the parking lot by a “younger black male” described as wearing a black zippered hoodie, black jeans, medium length coat, black boots, and a black baseball cap with a gray bill.