A Middleton couple was robbed at gunpoint in downtown Madison Friday night while walking toward Vilas Park.
Around 9:57 p.m., Madison police responded to a robbery on the corner of Randall and Mound Streets. According to a police report, the male victim, 26, and female victim, 25, said they were walking toward the park when a man carrying a handgun approached them and demanded the woman's purse. The woman gave her purse to the perpetrator and he then unsuccessfully tried to take the man's wallet.
Police said there was a second perpetrator nearby who appeared to be looking out for the first perpetrator. Both men fled on foot.
Police describe the armed perpetrator as a black male, 20 to 30 years old, 5'8 and 175 pounds, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, baseball cap and blue jeans. The second perpetrator is described as a 5'8"" black male.
