Woman at Bus Stop Is Latest Armed Robbery Victim

A 19-year-old Milwaukee woman who works at in Wauwatosa reported that she was robbed at gunpoint Monday while sitting at the bus stop on North 60^th Street at West North Avenue.

According to police reports:

The woman said it was somewhere between 5:45 and 6 p.m. when a man walked past her coming from the north. He then turned around, came back and sat down next to her.

A moment later, he said, “Give me everything you have.” She turned and saw that he was pointing a black semiautomatic handgun at her across his lap. She said she started to hand over her purse but the robber told her to “take everything out of it.”

She took out her cash and her iPod Touch and handed that over. The robber said, “If you didn’t give me everything, I’ll shoot you,” and she replied “That’s all I have.”

He then got up and quickly walked away eastward on North Avenue. The victim got on a bus and went to a friend’s house, her original destination, and called her mother.

Her mother told her to come home and then report the robbery. She did so, but it was about an hour after the incident before police were alerted. The young woman had a cell phone, which wasn’t stolen from her, but did not use it because, she said, she was so afraid she did not know what to do.

She described the robber as a black male, from 18 to 25 years old, 5-feet 7-inches tall, weighing about 120 to 130 pounds, with a medium brown complexion and short black hair. He was wearing blue jeans and a black windbreaker.