A 38-year-old man has been charged with robbing a Palolo game room and store where a man providing security was fatally shot less than a year ago.

Anthony Eugenio, of no local address, was charged with first-degree robbery, and a district judge committed his case to Circuit Court on Thursday. Eugenio’s bail was set at $50,000, and he remained at Oahu Community Correctional Center on Monday.

Police said six men showed up with weapons and forcefully took items from the New Family Store at 2144 Kauhana St., just off Palolo Avenue, around 12:15 p.m. April 1. The men tied up the victims and fled with cash and seven game machines, according to a police affidavit filed in Honolulu District Court.

There were at least six people, ranging in age from 36 to 57, in the business at the time, police said.

According to the affidavit, Eugenio pointed a black handgun at the store owner and ordered him to hand over all of his money. The owner gave Eugenio $1,200 from his pants pocket.

Eugenio and another man tied the owner’s hands with telephone wire and left him on the floor behind the counter, the affidavit said.

Meanwhile, a woman in the kitchen saw the robbery and warned the game room occupants, but another suspect posing as a customer in the game room grabbed the phone from a customer trying to call police, according to the affidavit. A fourth suspect came in with a sawed-off shotgun and ordered the occupants out of the game room and into the kitchen, where they were told to lie facedown.

A fifth suspect, carrying a baseball bat, tied the wrists of some of the occupants with plastic flex ties and stood over them in the kitchen while the other suspects removed game machines from the game room and kitchen, the affidavit said. One suspect ripped out the surveillance system before all of the suspects fled in unknown vehicles.

Several days later a plainclothes officer identified Eugenio as a possible suspect, and the store owner identified him in a photographic lineup, according to the affidavit.

Police arrested Eugenio at Middle and Rose streets in Kalihi on April 6. No other suspects have been charged, according to court records.

The Palolo business was called New Valley Store in June when 44-year-old Keni “Rimoni” Pologa was shot and killed during a robbery there. Pologa was providing security at the time.

Wilbur Gutierrez was indicted on a charge of murder in that case and is awaiting trial at Halawa Correctional Facility with a bail of $1 million.