Woman Robbed at Gunpoint in Stoneridge Shopping Center Parking Lot, Police Say

PLEASANTON, CA — Police are looking for two suspects who allegedly robbed a woman at gunpoint in the Stoneridge Shopping Center parking lot in Pleasanton Tuesday morning. Police said two suspects approached the victim who was getting into her car after leaving the mall.

“One of the suspects pulled open the driver’s door, pointed a black handgun at the victim and demanded her property,” police said in a statement.

The second suspect acted as a lookout, police said. The pair fled in a green Honda Civic or similar sedan.

The first suspect is described as a Hispanic man between 18 to 20 years old. The man was about 5 feet, 4 inches tall and was wearing a beanie cap, dark sweater and gray pants. The second suspect was a black man between 18 to 20 years old. He was about the same height as the first suspect, with a slender build and was wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt.

The investigation is ongoing.

The robbery is just one of many violent robberies reported at Stoneridge in the past year. In June, police said two unidentified teens allegedly pepper-sprayed and robbed a patron at the mall. Three teens arrested in February admitted to their involvement with a rash of parking lot robberies at the mall. During those incidents, a teen from Danville was approached by the suspects, and when the girl tried to walk away, one of the suspects allegedly struck the girl in the face, pushed her to the ground and grabbed her purse, according to police.

The next day, the suspects grabbed a 63-year-old woman’s purse while another brandished a firearm, possibly a shotgun or rifle, police said. The woman fell to the ground as she struggled to hold on to her purse. One of the suspects then kicked the woman in the back before they fled, according to police. In March of 2015, a father foiled a carjacking at the mall and was robbed by two shotgun-wielding suspects.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Pleasanton Police Department at (925) 931- 5100.

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