Federal Way police are searching for a man who threatened to shoot a bank teller before robbing an Alaska Federal Credit Union.

Officers were dispatched to the bank, which is inside the Safeway at 1207 S. 320th St., at about 10:25 a.m. on Nov. 21. Once there, police learned the suspect walked up to a teller at the bank and held up a note written on a long piece of paper. In three lines, written in bubble lettering, the note read: “I have a gun in my pocket, and if you don’t give me money, I’ll shoot you.”

According to the teller, when the suspect held up the note, he put his elbows on the teller window and spoke in a “quiet but very commanding voice” as he read the note out loud.

Fearful for her life, the teller complied and grabbed a stack of money to give the suspect. The suspect demanded more before he quickly walked away with the money in his pockets.

The teller burst into the bank’s back office where her co-workers were in a meeting and stated they had an emergency.

Police obtained video surveillance from the Starbucks inside the grocery store as well as Safeway’s footage. K-9 units were sent to search for the suspect but couldn’t track a scent.

According to the police report, the suspect is described as a white man, about 50 years old and 6-feet tall with a medium build. He was wearing a black beanie with a white stripe, dark rimmed glasses, he was clean shaven and had on a maroon track-style jacket with a white piped stitching and a white letter on the left breast side of the jacket. Confirmed by school officials, the jacket is a specific type of jacket given to Puyallup-based Glacier View Jr. High School staff members. The suspect also had on light blue jeans and black shoes with neon green soles.