Ghent Neighborhood League

By Lauren King

The Virginian-Pilot
© December 1, 2011

NORFOLK

Police are asking for the public’s help to identify a man who robbed and injured a 75-year-old man shortly before noon today.

The robber knocked the man to the ground in the 400 block of Washington Park during the robbery, Norfolk police said in a news release. He was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, treated and released.

The robber was described as a black man, 20 to 30 years old, 6 feet tall with a muscular build. He was wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt, with a white T-shirt underneath, blue denim jeans, black Vans-style shoes with white soles and a black nylon do-rag on his head. He was last seen getting into the passenger side of a black Ford Expedition.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

Please visit http://hamptonroads.com/2011/12/robber-injures-75yearold-man-norfolks-ghent to view photos of the suspected individual.