THE LOOP — Women have been punched and kicked during two May robberies downtown, police say.
In one incident, a man punched a woman and knocked her to the ground, and then he stole her wallet from her pants pocket while hitting her, police said.
In a second incident, a man stole from a store. He grabbed a woman's purse while running away. The woman tried to get the purse back but the man kicked her and ran away to a gold-colored Toyota driven by another man.
The thief is described as a 25- to 30-year-old white man who is 5-foot-4 to 5-foot-9 and 130-160 pounds with brown eyes and short brown hair.
The robberies occurred:
• 6:46-7 p.m. May 4 in the 400 block of West Madison Street
• 7 p.m. May 21 in the 600 block of West Jackson Boulevard
Anyone with information about the robberies is asked to call police at 312-747-8384.
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