The following report appeared in the most recently released crime blotter by the Belleville Police Department:
THURSDAY
8:06 p.m. BATTERY - 100 block of S. 89th Street. Officers responded to an area hospital for the report of a battery. The victim, a 42-year-old female, reported at 5:05 p.m. she exited her vehicle at her residence and was attacked for unknown reasons by three unknown females.
9:32 p.m. ARMED ROBBERY - S. High at E. Washington. The victim, a 38-year-old female, reported as she entered her vehicle on the parking lot, a male approached the driver's door, opened it, and pointed a handgun at her. The suspect demanded her purse, and then fled the area in a vehicle. A vehicle matching the description was located near West Boulevard and Fair Oaks. As officers approached two males fled from the vehicle on foot.
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