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Police investigate rash of at least 8 robberies

Crimes happened between midnight and 3 a.m. Wednesday.

Police investigate rash of at least 8 robberies

Crimes happened between midnight and 3 a.m. Wednesday.

MILWAUKE DERRICK: HERE’S A MAP OF THE EIGHT ROBBERIES OVERNIGHT. ALL HAPPENED IN A SPAN OF THREE HOURS. MILWAUKEE POLICE BELIEVE SEVERAL ARE CONNECTED. JOYCE: THE LAST ONE WAS AT 2:5 A. -- AT 3RD AND MINERAL, IN WALKER’S POINT. WHICH IS WHERE 12 NEWS HANNAH HILYARD SPOKE WITH TWO OF TH VICTIMS, A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. >> CONCUSSED AND BANGED UP, THE DETAILS OF THE EARLY MORNING ATTACK ARE STILL FRESH IN AMBER SMITH’S HEAD. SHE SAYS SHE AND HER MOM WERE RETURNING TO THEIR WALKER’S POINT HOME AFTER LATE NIGHT ERRANDS, WHEN TWO MEN SURPRISED THEM. >> WE BOLTED THROUGH TWO OF THE CARS PARKED OVER HERE. HE JUST BOLTED THROUGH WITH THE GUN POINTED OUT. >> SMITH SAYS ONE HIT HER IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD WITH THE GUN, SMASHED HER HEAD INTO THE STREET. >> Y CAN SEE IT. IT IS CHIPPED. >> AND WERE ABLE TO GET HER PURSE. AND THEN HE PUT THE GUN TO MY HEAD, AND PRESSED THE GUN TO MY HEAD. AND SAID, ’GIVE ME THE F KEY.’ AND I WENT, ’NO. NO.’ I SAW HIM POINT THE GUN AT HER, AND SHE WAS FIGHTING HIM, AND THEN HE SHOT IT UP IN THE AIR. >> SEVERAL NEIGHBORS SAY THEY HEARD THE GUNFIRE. I WAS SLEEPING AND THEN I HEARD A GUNSHOT, AND THEN I CAME OUTSIDE, AND I WAS LIKE, ’WHAT’ GOING ON?’ >> SMITH AND HER MOM, BARB POND, ARE UPSET NEIGHBORS DID NOT COME TO THEIR AID. BUT THEY ARE NOT SHOCKED THE ATTACK MAY BE CONNECTED TO SEVERAL ARMED ROBBERIES IN THE CITY EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. >> THEY’RE GOING TO FIND THEM, AND WE’RE GOING TO BE IN THEIR LIFE, AND I’M GOING TO BE TH
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Police investigate rash of at least 8 robberies

Crimes happened between midnight and 3 a.m. Wednesday.

Police are investigating at least eight robberies throughout Milwaukee.They happened between midnight and 3 a.m. Wednesday.Investigators said they were working to learn which heists are connected.Four robberies each happened in Districts 4 and 5.A gunshot was fired at the scene of one robbery near South 3rd and West Mineral streets.A witness reported seeing two young men, crouched behind a porch, before they ambushed and attacked a mother and daughter.They said they were returning home from late night errands. "(They) came racing through in between the cars with a gun point straight at me, and said 'give me the (expletive) keys...' (They) came up, tried to grab the keys, grabbed my purse," Amber Smith said. "I fought him. I said, 'No, you're not taking my keys. You're not taking my purse.' The next I know, the base of the gun, he smacked it in the back of my head and knocked me down."The men got away with her purse.Smith suffered a concussion and a chipped tooth.She received stitches at the hospital.Her mom, Barb Pond, said she refused to hand over her purse and fought with the suspects. "I'm mad more than anything," she said. "You don't just go into somebody's life and take things that they work for. You just don't do that. They showed up around here and came into our life, now we're going to be in their life. (Police are) going to find them. And we're going to be in their life, and I'm going to be their worst nightmare."Pond walked away with only a few scratches.The two were upset neighbors didn't come to their rescue.Police have made two arrests and are seeking a third person of interest.

Police are investigating at least eight robberies throughout Milwaukee.

They happened between midnight and 3 a.m. Wednesday.

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Investigators said they were working to learn which heists are connected.

Four robberies each happened in Districts 4 and 5.

A gunshot was fired at the scene of one robbery near South 3rd and West Mineral streets.

A witness reported seeing two young men, crouched behind a porch, before they ambushed and attacked a mother and daughter.

They said they were returning home from late night errands.

"(They) came racing through in between the cars with a gun point straight at me, and said 'give me the (expletive) keys...' (They) came up, tried to grab the keys, grabbed my purse," Amber Smith said. "I fought him. I said, 'No, you're not taking my keys. You're not taking my purse.' The next I know, the base of the gun, he smacked it in the back of my head and knocked me down."

The men got away with her purse.

Smith suffered a concussion and a chipped tooth.

She received stitches at the hospital.

Her mom, Barb Pond, said she refused to hand over her purse and fought with the suspects.

"I'm mad more than anything," she said. "You don't just go into somebody's life and take things that they work for. You just don't do that. They showed up around here and came into our life, now we're going to be in their life. (Police are) going to find them. And we're going to be in their life, and I'm going to be their worst nightmare."

Pond walked away with only a few scratches.

The two were upset neighbors didn't come to their rescue.

Police have made two arrests and are seeking a third person of interest.