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Jun 5, 2009 6:19 pm US/Central
2 U Of M Roommates Mugged In Separate Robberies
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The young woman grabbed her phone, tried dialing 911 and screamed. The men didn't get her purse, but they did give her the scare of her life.
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Two young women who are college students at the University of Minnesota were attacked in the last week.
"There's three of us walking. This car pulls in," recalled Katelyn Schmidt about the incident last Wednesday morning.
It happened near 5th Street Southeast and 13th Avenue in southeast Minneapolis.
The young women had just left a restaurant in Dinkytown.
A woman jumped out of that car and ran right towards Schmidt. She grabbed Schmidt's wrist and spun her around into a brick wall. She wanted Schmidt's small purse on her wrist.
"A guy got out, and that's when we were like, drop it. There's a guy, forget about it,'" she recalled.
Schmidt lost a few bucks and her license. She has a black eye after the woman punched her. She also hurt her wrist in the attack.
"We were really being cautious about our surroundings, and just staying together and being careful that night," said Schmidt.
Schmidt's roommate was attacked a few days before while walking across the pedestrian bridge over Interstate 35W.
"I pretty scared," Schmidt's roommate recalled about the incident last Sunday night. "There were two guys. They both came out of the shadows and they both had their guns out."
They pointed those guns at her and demanded her purse.
"They said to me, 'give us all your cash, do you have any cash?' and I said 'no, I didn't have any cash,' and I didn't, and they said 'give us everything you have,'" the young woman recalled.
She grabbed her phone, tried dialing 911 and screamed. The men didn't get her purse, but they did give her the scare of her life.
"Never had a gun pointed at me, hopefully never again," she said.
She's walked that pedestrian bridge hundreds of times while going to the University of Minnesota. Now both young women won't take their safety for granted again.
"I won't walk alone again at night. That's for sure," said the one student.
"Everyone needs to be careful, it can happen to you," said Schmidt.
These crimes follow a trend Minneapolis police have been seeing. They've seen a slight increase in assaults and robberies in southeast Minneapolis the last two months.
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