Woman Robbed at Gunpoint in New Haven

A woman contacted police at 8 p.m. on Wednesday to report that two men robbed her at gunpoint and took her pocketbook.

The woman said two men, including one with a silver gun, approached her in the 700 block of Orange Street at 8 p.m. and demanded her purse.

She was not hurt and described one robber as 5-feet-8 to 6-feet tall, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and a black hat. She couldn’t describe the other man, police said.

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