Victims beaten in two robberies

staff report

SHARON, Pa. — City police responded to two robberies during which victims were beaten.

The first, at 4:55 p.m. Monday, happened in the 300 block of Malleable Street, said police Chief Michael Menster.

A 20-year-old Sharpsville man and a friend were approached by three men, one carrying a handgun, he said.

The victim was slapped, hit in the head with the gun and knocked to the ground, Menster said. The robber with the gun pointed it in the victim’s face, kicked him in the face, and ordered him to take off his pants, he said.

The robbers got away with $900, a cell phone and a necklace that were in the victim’s pants, he said. The victim’s friend was not assaulted.

The victim was taken to Sharon Regional Hospital because of possible facial fractures.

About an hour later, two men approached a 52-year-old woman who was sitting on her porch in the 800 block of Wallis Avenue, Menster said. One of the men entered her kitchen, and when she went in, he threw a towel over her face.

The man threw her to the floor, choked her and hit her repeatedly in her head and face. She lost consciousness, and it was a witness who’d heard her screams for help who called police, Menster said.

The neighbor saw a man running out the back door of the woman’s home.

The woman was taken to Sharon Regional, with bruising around her throat and a severe injury to her right eye, Menster said. He said police aren’t sure if there’s anything missing from the woman’s home. Police expect an arrest in the case in the near future, he said.