A 25-year-old Bridgeport man drove to New Haven to meet a woman he met on SnapChat. He met male muggers instead.
The incident occurred Wednesday at 12:45 a.m.
Here’s what happened, according to police spokesman Officer David Hartman:
Through SnapChat, the man arranged to meet the woman on Sherman Parkway. Actually, he was told that “her brother would meet him and bring him to her.”
He apparently bought it.
He told cops that he drove his mom’s car to Sherman Parkway, showed up and “met the man he suspected was his date’s brother. Then he was confronted by two other men. One pushed him to the ground. One of the guys had a gun. He said he got up and ran away – though he was chased by the pair of would-be robbers. During his escape, he dropped his keys, cell phone and his flip-flops came off,” Hartman wrote in a release.
“He lost his pursuers and returned to retrieve his lost items. He found his flip-flops and phone but his keys and his mom’s car, a black 2015 Ford Escape, bearing (CT marker plate) AD47470, were gone. The car has dark rear-seat window tints and lighter front tints.
“The crooks and car haven’t been found.”
Two “good Samaritans” saw the man “being chased down Dixwell Avenue” and picked him up to take him to the hospital, then flagged down a cop on Whalley instead.
70-Year-Old, SCSU Student Mugged
In other crime news, according to Hartman, someone in a puffy coat and ski mask grabbed a 70-year-old man from behind “in a bear hug“as he was walking home from the bus to his Livingston Street home around 7 p.m. Tuesday.
“I’m not going to hurt you,” the attacker said. “I just want your money.”
The attacker threw the man to the ground, checked his pockets, stole money and a Yale library card. The victim said the attacker “simulated a weapon” but was probably pressing knuckles against his back.
The victim “unmasked” the attacker before the attacker fled. He later gave the ski mask to the cops, who are investigating.
Around 10 p.m., three men mugged and carjacked a 20-year-old pizza deliverer (who’s also a Southern Connecticut State University student) at gunpoint when he arrived at what he thought was a pizza delivery call on Harrison Street.
