2 Robbed At Gunpoint Outside Palo Alto Home
PALO ALTO (BCN) -- Two people were robbed at gunpoint while sitting in a vehicle outside a home in Palo Alto on Thursday night, a police lieutenant said Friday.
The robbery was reported shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday in the 400 block of Marion Avenue, Palo Alto police Lt. Sandra Brown said.
The two victims were sitting in a vehicle in a residential driveway after having just arrived home when a man approached, pointed a handgun at them, and demanded their belongings, police said.
The victims handed over a wallet, cash and credit cards, and the suspect fled in a vehicle that was waiting at the corner of Marion Avenue and Waverly Street, police said.
The vehicle, described as an older model, white, four-door Honda Accord, was last seen fleeing north on Waverly Street, according to police.
The suspect was described as a black man in his 20s who is tall and thin with short hair, Brown said. He was wearing a dark jacket and dark pants, and had not been found as of Friday morning.
The victims were not injured during the robbery.
Palo Alto has been hit with a slew of robberies since October, Brown said.
She said there have been at least 13 or 14 robberies in the city in the past couple of months, including a purse snatching last Saturday outside a woman's home on El Cajon Way.
Police are investigating whether any of the robberies are related, she said.
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