{"id":274936,"date":"2026-08-30T00:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274936\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T00:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:52:13","slug":"two-men-one-with-an-ar-15-style-rifle-robbed-a-victim-of-gold-chains-and-a-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274936\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men, one with an AR-15-style rifle, robbed a victim of gold chains and a watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Two masked men, one wielding an AR-15-style rifle, robbed a man of his jewelry and a watch Friday in <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/center-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Center City<\/a>, according to Philadelphia police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Central detectives are investigating the incident, which took place about 2:15 a.m. on the 1500 block of Sansom Street. It was the second such robbery in Center City involving an AR-15-style rifle within a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Friday\u2019s robbery occurred as a 23-year-old man and two friends were returning home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Two masked men got out of a light gray or beige four-door sedan with tinted windows, police said. One was carrying the AR-15-style rifle, according to police. The second was armed with a black semiautomatic handgun. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The robbers stole two gold chains off the victim\u2019s neck and demanded his silver diamond watch. They then fled west on Sansom Street, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Early on the morning of Aug. 23, masked men armed with handguns and what appeared to be an AR-15-style rifle robbed three men in <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/center-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Center City<\/a>, forcing at least one of the victims to his knees at gunpoint, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The victims \u2014 ages 27, 35, and 36 \u2014 were talking on the sidewalk around 3 a.m. on the 1500 block of Locust Street when three robbers stepped out of a gray Hyundai sedan and demanded the men\u2019s belongings, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Two of the men complied but the third resisted, and one of the robbers hit him in the face with a handgun. He was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The assailants took cell phones, watches, car keys, wallets, driver\u2019s licenses, and cash, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Surveillance video showed one victim on his knees on the sidewalk as two of the robbers pointed guns at his head. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Two masked men, one wielding an AR-15-style rifle, robbed a man of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,115495],"class_list":["post-274936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-robbery-assault-rifle-gold-chains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}