Two perpetrators beat and robbed a UW-Madison student who was walking on West Gilman Street early Tuesday, according to the Madison Police Department.
Police said the 23-year-old male student was walking eastbound on the 100 block of West Gilman Street just after midnight when two men approached him. The men attacked the victim and struck him several times with a silver handgun, according to a police report.
The perpetrators fled with the man's backpack, wallet and cell phone. The victim suffered several facial lacerations.
Police describe the first suspect as a black male in his 30s, 5'9\ with a stocky build, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and dark-colored, baggy jeans. The second perpetrator is described as a black male in his 20s, 5'11"" with a thin build and short hair, wearing a dark-colored sweatshirt and dark-colored jeans.
In a separate incident, police arrested six teenage boys after they attacked a man walking in the 200 block of North Hamilton Street Monday night. MPD Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain said the perpetrators, all 15 or 16 years old, traveled to the downtown area with the intention of robbing someone.
Police said the teenagers asked the victim for a cigarette as he walked by, then beat him and unsuccessfully attempted to take his backpack before running off. Police stopped the perpetrators a short distance away and arrested them on tentative charges of battery and attempted robbery.
