Crime & Safety
Update: Woman Robbed on Fourth Street
A female walking in unincorporated Redwood City was robbed Tuesday.
By Bay City News
San Mateo County sheriff's deputies are on the lookout for a man who held up a woman and stole her backpack in a brazen daytime robbery in unincorporated Redwood City on Tuesday afternoon.
At around 2:45 p.m., the 27-year-old woman was walking in the 400 block of Fourth Avenue near Middlefield Road in North Fair Oaks when she heard shuffling behind her.
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When she turned around, she was immediately assaulted by a Hispanic man in his 20s who was armed with a handgun, San Mateo County sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Rosenblatt said.
The victim told authorities that the man pointed a gun at her and demanded her backpack, which she gave him. He then ran away, heading east on Fourth Avenue and then south on Park Road, according to Rosenblatt.
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Although the robbery was reported minutes after it occurred, sheriff's deputies who canvassed the area were unable to locate the suspect. He is described as a thin, 6-foot-tall man with short dark hair.
He was last seen wearing black jeans and a black, long-sleeve "hoodie," and may have been driving a late 1990s-model green Honda Civic.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact sheriff's Detective Andrew Armando at (650) 363-4347.
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