Crime & Safety

Shepard Ave. Man Robbed At Gunpoint: Police

Police reported the victim said the suspect had a thin goatee and was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.

OAK CREEK, WI — Oak Creek police responded to a robbery on the 7500 block of S. Shepard Ave. just after 8 a.m . on Dec. 4.

According to police, a man pulled into his driveway and was robbed at gunpoint. He told police that the man came up to him, pointed a small black revolver at him, took his money, and fled.

According to the report, the suspect forced him to throw his cell phone into his yard and told him to turn around and run, which he did. The man told police that the suspect was a black male, who stood about six feet tall and was in his mid-to-late 20s.

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The man said the suspect had a thin goatee and was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled over his head.

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