UPDATE: Police Ask Public for Help in Finding Armed Robbery Suspects

UPDATE: Police Ask Public for Help in Finding Armed Robbery Suspects

By WYDaily Staff Sunday, October 02, 2011

Williamsburg Police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred in the 500 block of North Henry Street at 12:30 p.m. Sunday.

The victim reports that four men - one white and three black - approached and one displayed a knife as the suspects took the victim's book bag.

Police did not have a description of the suspects at first, but released a more thorough description Monday afternoon.

Police report all four suspects were described as being men between 19 and 25 years old. Two of the black males were described as wearing either a grey or black hoodie, jeans and sneakers. One black male was described as having short black hair and wearing a grey hoodie, black nylon pants and white sneakers. The white suspect was described as having dark brown hair, wearing a green jacket with a white stripe, gray jeans and white sneakers.

All four suspects fled on foot in an unknown direction.

The victim was not injured in the robbery.

Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP or the Williamsburg Police at 220-2331.

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+7 #8 JRC 2011-10-03 23:16

Never say; A victim is not injured. You better believe he or she is injured. Violators have the residence address, possible keys, identification, medications needed, and much more. The degree of fear and future suspicion does not vanish into the day or night.

There is too much of this happening, and getting worse. Merchants with cameras indoors and out, please keep them working.

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+3 #7 Wburgman 2011-10-03 20:36

Burger that was my mistake, thought I read that in one of the reports, but I have no knowledge of the case other than what I've read. A better description of the perps was released today, hopefully that will help find them.

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+2 #6 burger 2011-10-03 15:48

HHHMMMM Did anyone say the victim was a female? WBURGMAN- Do you know more about the case and if so how?

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+9 #5 Wburgman 2011-10-03 13:02

I hope they catch these punks/cowards/l osers. 4 on 1 assult with a knife to a female? That type of cowardice suggests perps who are not very self-assured and needed each other's presence to do this, which points toward adolescents or young 'adult'. The location suggests they may live in Highland Park, or that they use the railroad tracks to move around. As a City resident I'd happily pay a few $ more in taxes to get our police dept a scent dog, which might be useful in tracking these parasites down. What pathetic excuses for humans these individuals are, and I hope the victim is OK. Is there anything we can do for her?

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-5 #4 Ron 2011-10-03 10:36

This is real simple folks.
If the victim had a chp and carried a nice little .38 special in the bag that was stolen. The victim could have easily "showed" it to the perpetrator when he "showed" his knife.
PROBLEM SOLVED.

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-2 #3 AMRD 2011-10-03 07:42

Quoting MaryC:

Although the robbery did not occur on Campus, the robbers are heeding the message of the W&M regulation against guns. Even in town, you can already see the effects of W&M's philosophy against gun violence If you believe that.....I have a bridge to sell you.

What?

Are you suggesting that promoting gun use on a college campus would make robbery at knife-point less likely? Or that a philosophy against gun violence is a bad thing? How can you even link the two?

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-11 #2 MaryC 2011-10-02 21:13

Although the robbery did not occur on Campus, the robbers are heeding the message of the W&M regulation against guns. Even in town, you can already see the effects of W&M's philosophy against gun violence If you believe that.....I have a bridge to sell you.

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+6 #1 iCARE! 2011-10-02 19:37

WHEN will WE be publicly given a complete description of the four big, brave PERPS? 12:30pm...that' s in the middle of OUR Sunday afternoon!

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