A man told Orange police he was walking along Green Avenue when a man in a car followed him from a convenience store and tried to rob him at gunpoint. The victim called police at 10:14 p.m. after the gunman was unsuccessful. Detective Captain Cliff Hargrave said the attempted robbery is not similar to robbery last Thursday night in the nearby Old Orange Historic District.
The man told Officer T.P. Pruitt that he was walking home after getting off work from a 16th Street business. The man stopped at the Star Stop at Green Avenue and 10th Street. When he walked out, he noticed a black Ford Focus at the gas pumps. The car followed him with the driver asking him questions.
When the walker got in the 700 block of Green Avenue, the driver of the car pulled out a black pistol and demanded money. The walker went across the Stark Museum of Art parking lot and the Ford Escort drove away.
The gunman is described as a black man, age about 24 to 25 with dark skin and light facial hair. The two victims of the armed robbery on Orange Avenue a week earlier did not have a detailed description of the two men who robbed them.
Captain Hargrave said detectives are checking the convenience store surveillance recordings to look for a license number on the car.
A 31-year-old Groves woman told Orange police she was not injured when her SUV went off an Interstate 10 access road and rolled over in a deep ditch. The accident was reported at 12:34 a.m. Tuesday at the 1800 block of South Lutcher Drive near 16th Street. Officer P.H. McDonald said Meagan A. Carlin was driving a Ford Explorer. The SUV traveled close to the edge of the road and the driver overcorrected and then went off the roadway into the ditch. Once in the ditch, the Explorer rolled over.
Social Media