Detectives are searching for two men who they say forced women to the ground along a Northern Liberties street, threatened to shoot them and then robbed their purses. The attack was caught on surveillance video.
The victims, a 24 and 27-year-old woman, were walking along Fairmount Avenue near 4th Street around 10:40 p.m. last Friday when the two men approached them next to a construction site, Philadelphia Police said. They grabbed both women and pushed them to the snowy sidewalk.
Police say suspects warned the victims they were armed with a gun and stole an iPhone, green leather purse and black tote bag.
The men fled to a red, older-model 1980-1990 Dodge Dakota pickup truck outfitted with wooden panels on the bed and drove off.
The women were not hurt, police said.
One suspect is described as a 30-year-old man standing 6-foot tall with a medium-stocky build and wearing a gray Old Navy sweatshirt. The second suspect is 25-years-old standing 6-foot-2-inches tall with a lean muscular build. He wore a dark-colored hoodie.
Anyone with information is asked to call Philadelphia Police's Central Detective Division at 215.686.3047.
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