Crime & Safety

Police: Aggravated Assault Sunday on Seminole Street

The incident happened around 9:15 p.m. on July 31.

According to police, a 52-year-old man who is a resident of the 8000 block of Roanoke was assaulted July 31, 9:15 p.m., on the corner of Seminole Street and West Willow Grove Avenue.

The man reported that three young men approached him, one pointing a handgun, police said.

Then, the man told police, another of the men hit him in the back of the head.

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John Empsoln, 18, was arrested shortly after on the 7900 block of Germantown Avenue in relation to the incident. The remaining two men were unidentified except that they were both wearing white tee shirts.

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