3 Teens Among Targets in 2 Strong-Arm Attacks

Three Tosa teenagers and a Milwaukee man were the victims in similar attempted strong-arm robbery attempts, but Wauwatosa police have not said they believe the attacks were related.

At 7:14 p.m. Friday, three Wauwatosa boys, two 15 and one 16 years old, reported that they were attacked by two young men or older boys while they were walking home together from a friend’s house.

They were in the 2200 block of North 67th Street, they said, when the two assailants got out of a green Chevy Suburban parked in the lot at McDonald’s and approached them.

One of them asked, “You got any weed?” the boys told officers. One of the victims said, “No,” and they kept walking.

Then one of them was grabbed from behind by the neck and pushed to his knees. One of the three boys tried to pull that attacker off his friend, he said, when the other assailant grabbed him, slapped his glasses off his face and punched him about seven times in the back of the head.

The two attackers then ran off, but one turned and came back for a cell phone he had dropped – which one of his victims handed over.

The boys described their attackers as two black males, 17 or 18 years old. One was 5-feet-11-inches to 6-feet-1-inch tall, 180 to 190 pounds, with a dark complexion and wearing blue jeans, a red shirt and a black cap.

The other was 5-feet-8-inches to 5-feet-10-inches tall, 155 to 180 pounds, with a dark complexion and his hair in short dreadlocks.

Older victim knocked down and injured in attack

A middle-aged Milwaukee man reported Saturday that he had been robbed by three teenagers at a bus stop in the 4500 block of North 92nd Street.

Officers and paramedics found the victim staggering and covered with mud, and he was later taken to the hospital for observation.

He told police he had watched the Marquette University basketball game at his parents’ house and was heading home when the three subjects walked up to him and asked for cigarettes and a cell phone.

When he told them he had neither, he said, one of them punched him in the head, knocking him down into a mud puddle. The three attackers then ran off, he said, and he did not see any vehicle involved.

He told officers the three assailants did not act like experienced criminals and seemed nervous and underage. He thought all three were perhaps 16 to 19 years old. He did not believe he would be able to identify any of them if he were to see them again.