Pair of robberies strike late at night

A pair of robberies committed by similarly described men were reported in Charlottesville between Sunday evening and Monday morning.
At about 11 p.m. Sunday, a 23-year-old Charlottesville man hailed an officer driving in the 200 block of 15th Street Northwest to report that he had just been robbed, according to a police report.

The victim said he had been walking north along 15th Street when a man walking in the same direction on the opposite side of the street crossed the street and got in front of him, according to the report. He then pulled a handgun, according to the report.
The man said he handed over his wallet, and the robber escaped on foot, according to the report.
The victim described the robber as a black man with short hair, between 18 and 25 years old, wearing a black T-shirt, according to the report.
Less than four hours later, Charlottesville police were called to the 7-Eleven convenience store at 2025 Ivy Road because of an armed robbery, according to a police report.

The clerk told the responding police officer that he had been restocking shelves when a robber with a handgun came in, according to the report. The robber got away on foot, according to the report.
The robber was described as a 20- to 22- year-old black man, about 5½ feet tall, weighing about 120 pounds, with short hair, dark baggy pants and a dark sweatshirt pulled over his mouth and nose, according to the report.