A group of eight men, all University of Virginia students, were robbed at gunpoint early Tuesday morning, before they chased the robbers down the street, Lt. Gary Pleasants of the Charlottesville police said.
The victims were in a house in the 1200 block of Wertland Street at about 12:35 a.m., with the door ajar, when the robbery took place, according to Pleasants.
Two men came in through the door, he said. One, with a small black revolver, held the victims at gunpoint and told them to turn over money and cell phones while the other collected the valuables, Pleasants said.
Then they ran off, and “several of the victims chased the suspects,” Pleasants said.
“The one with the gun fired it into the air several times,” he said.
Pleasants said police don’t recommend victims give chase to armed robbers.
After the gunshots, the robbers got into a gold or brown car on 12 1/2 Street Northwest, he said. Then they got away.
One of the robbers is described as a dark-skinned black man, skinny, about 6 feet 1 or 2 inches tall and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a baseball cap.
The other is described as a light-skinned black male, broadly built, about 6 feet 1 to 3 inches tall and wearing a baseball cap.
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