LAPD looking for victim, suspect after violent watch robbery caught on camera on Melrose

FAIRFAX DISTRICT, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Police are asking for the general public’s assist monitoring down one in every of two suspects – and the sufferer – in a vicious beating and theft caught on digicam on Melrose Avenue.

The video reveals a sufferer adopted right into a salon enterprise within the 8200 block of Melrose Avenue on Tuesday afternoon.

The sufferer is seen being thrown to the bottom and chased by way of the salon by one suspect, who continues to assault and pistol-whip the sufferer in an effort to get his watch.

Finally a second suspect runs into the shop and collectively they handle to strip off the sufferer’s watch after which run away.

Police say the 2 suspects fled the scene in a white 2014 Toyota Corolla. The sufferer left the scene earlier than officers arrived.

The LAPD says Riverside County Sheriff’s Division deputies later stopped the 2014 Corolla in Moreno Valley. They arrested and booked for theft a person believed to be the second suspect within the theft, recognized as Demetri Sherman.

Police are nonetheless hoping to seek out the sufferer of the watch theft.

Anybody with info is requested to name LAPD detectives at (213)922-8215 or present nameless info to Crime Stoppers at (800)222-TIPS.