Visitation Prep Students Mugged Friday Afternoon

Two Georgetown Visitation Prep students were mugged around 3:30 p.m., Friday, April 15, in Pomander Walk along the 3300 block of Volta Place. The two female students were grabbed by a boy and pushed into the alley of small townhouses off Volta Place, where they were mugged by two girls. The assailants stole a phone and ran away when a neighbor observing the crime came on the scene. The visibly shaken students, who were uninjured, remained on a Volta Place corner to speak with police and school officials as commuter traffic idled on 34th Street.

According to the Metropolitan Police, the suspects — two of whom were wearing Guy Fawkes mask on top of their heads — are black, 14 to 18 years old and averaging five-foot-seven or five-feet-eight with thin or medium builds.