A woman and two men were involved in a plan to ask a worker inside an Ypsilanti cellphone store several questions before tying him up, strangling him with a rope and beating him bloody, officials said. They then stole several items and fled to an apartment 1,000 feet away, according to authorities.

It was a daring robbery in broad daylight that only lasted a few minutes but took place in three acts, across just over 1000 feet.