Police are investigating after a man tried to rob a bakery in the state’s south at gunpoint.

About 11.50pm on Friday (4 October 2013), a man was working at a bakery on Cooper Street, Cootamundra when a man entered through the back door.

Officers have been told the man, who had his face concealed, threatened the baker with a gun and demanded money, but left a short time later empty-handed.

No one was injured during the incident.

Police from Cootamundra Local Area Command were contacted and secured a crime scene that was examined by forensic specialists

The man has been described as being about 175cm tall, with a thin build, and was wearing a black coloured jumper at the time.