Crime & Safety
Woman Robbed At Gunpoint At Palo Alto Train Station
At 4:17 p.m., the woman called the department's dispatch center Tuesday saying she was robbed at gunpoint.
By Olivia Wynkoop, Bay City News Foundation
PALO ALTO, CA — Police are in search of two suspects who robbed a woman in her twenties at the University Avenue train station on late Tuesday afternoon, said the Palo Alto Police Department.
At 4:17 p.m., the woman called the department's dispatch center saying she was robbed at gunpoint. According to her account of the incident, two suspects brandished a handgun at her and demanded her backpack, credit cards, portable charger and Nike shoes she was wearing.
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Police said a woman in her eighties tried to intervene but stopped with the suspect pointed the gun at her.
The two suspects fled towards University Circle in a white Nissan sedan, according to witnesses. Both suspects were described as two Hispanic men in their mid-twenties wearing black shirts.
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Police urge anyone with more information on the case to call their 24-hour dispatch center at (650) 329-2413.
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