A woman walking on St. Charles Avenue was robbed at gunpoint of her purse by two men on bicycles Thursday evening, police said.The woman was near Cadiz Street about 9 p.m. when two men rode up to her on bicycles, according to a New Orleans Police Department email alert. One pulled out a small silver handgun and snatched away her purse, and then the bicyclists took off on St. Charles toward downtown, police said.
The robber is described as a black man in his late teens with shoulder-length dreadlocks under a red baseball cap, wearing black clothes and riding a BMX bicycle. The other man “did not say or do anything but watch as the robbery took place,” the email says, and no significant description of him is offered.
Anyone with information should call Second District detectives at 658-6020.
