Crime Report: 5.1.09

This week's Hyde Park crime blotters

April 28, 3:15 p.m.

Two men approached a 15-year-old teenager on the 4000 block of South Drexel Avenue and ordered him to surrender his property. Displaying a handgun, one of the offenders went through the victim’s pockets but did not find anything. Both suspects were described as black males, 17 to 20 years old, 5-foot-10 to 6-feet, and weighing between 150 and 170 pounds.

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