MOULTRIE, Ga. — A suspect chased down by a Moultrie police officer shortly after two men were attacked Saturday night on a county roadway has been charged with armed robbery.

The Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office said that Dontez Kive McNeal was identified as a suspect from store surveillance video taken at a convenience store in the city.

Mark Tillman, one of the robbery victims, told police that a man had asked him if he had a gas can shortly after 10 p.m. while they were inside the Chevron store at U.S. Highway 319 North and Veterans Parkway North.

Tillman and Mark Pinion gave him and another man a ride a short distance away to a maroon GMC Yukon parked in the 800 block of Highway 319, ostensibly where the two assailants had run out of gasoline in the SUV.

When Tillman got out to help one of them put gas in the Yukon, Pinion told police, the other man pulled a gun on him and demanded money. The man outside with Tillman also demanded and took his money and hit him twice in the head.

At that time Tillman’s attacker went to Pinion’s car and they took his wallet containing cash, his driver’s license and debit card. They also took the keys from the ignition and a second set from Pinion’s pocket.

As Tillman was walking back to the car one of the men fired a shot at him. A second shot was fired from the Yukon as the robbers pulled away.

Later that night, a Moultrie Police Department officer saw a Chevrolet Yukon parked in the vicinity of First Avenue Southeast and Rowland Drive.

When the officer tried to make contact with the occupants, they ran from the SUV and the officer was able to chase down one of them on foot, Moultrie police Lt. Raul Leal said.

McNeal, 25, 1509 Sunrise Ave., has been charged with two counts of armed robbery.

The robbery of Tillman and Pinion was the first of two such incidents in about two hours.

Shortly after midnight Sunday two gunmen robbed a pair of roommates outside their residence in the 200 block of Cedar Street off Sardis Church Road.

Rolfi Diaz and Narciso Ramirez were on the porch when two males approached them from around the side of the house. They pulled guns and demanded money, and one shot Diaz in the foot when he told them he had no money. One of the assailants then took money from Ramirez’s pocket, while the other pointed a gun at Diaz’s head and took his cash.

Both robberies remain under investigation by the sheriff’s office.