Boy Reports Being Attacked, Robbed on Way Home from School

A 17-year-old Milwaukee boy who is a student at Wauwatosa East High School reported that he was attacked and robbed of his iPod last week while he was walking home from school.

According to the police report:

At 4:08 p.m. Dec. 20, the boy called police to say that he had been attacked a little more than an hour earlier. He said he had gotten out of school about 2:15 p.m., walked a few blocks with some friends and then turned north alone, toward his home.

He told police he had been holding his iPod music player in his hand as he was walking in the 2200 block of North 69^th Street when two young men or boys approached him walking south.

The boy said he had no apprehensions of an attack, but as the two passed him, one of them suddenly punched him in the stomach, doubling him over, and the other hit him in the jaw. Then one of them grabbed his iPod and they both ran.

He said he continued home after the incident and told his mother what had happened. She initially called Milwaukee police, but after determining where the incident happened she was told to call Wauwatosa police, accounting for the delay in reporting the crime.

The victim described both suspects as black males, about 16 to 18 years old, each about 6 feet tall and weighing about 165 to 175 pounds. He said one had a black buzz cut and gold grill upper teeth and was wearing a black hoodie with a Green Bay Packers logo on the back. The other, he said, had a short afro hair style and a light mustache. He was wearing a brown hoodie and carrying a brown backpack.