LAGUNA BEACH ? Police officials are bringing some Christmas spirit to a recent robbery victim on Tuesday, providing her with a new phone to replace one stolen during an attack.
The Laguna Beach Police Employee Association teamed up with the non-profit Crime Survivors organization and Boost Mobile to support the local hairstylist after she was violently attacked while leaving work on Dec. 8.
The woman, who authorities are not identifying because she was a crime victim, was walking from a Laguna Beach salon to her car when she was confronted by two men in a parking garage. The men pointed what turned out to be airsoft guns ? replica firearms that shoot plastic pellets -- at her, and demanded her wallet, said Larry Bammer, president of the Laguna Beach Police Association.
As the woman attempted to keep walking to her car, the men approached her, pressed one of the airsoft guns into her back and fired. The woman fought back as the men grabbed her purse, kicking and screaming before the robbers got her purse and ran away, Bammer said.
The robbers escaped with $100 in cash from the purse, which the woman needed for a month's worth of groceries, as well as a new cell phone, Bammer said. The woman also sustained a serious bruise and welt in the center of her back, where she had been shot by the airsoft gun.
Two of the officers who responded the night of the robbery paid the woman back the stolen $100 from their own pockets. Crime Survivors reached out to support the woman, while Boost Mobile agreed to donate a new HTC cell phone after hearing of the robbery.
Police say the two robbers, as well as a suspected getaway driver, were later arrested in Westminster. Their names were not immediately available.
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Source: http://www.ocregister.com/news/woman-381637-police-beach.html
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