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May 8, 2008 10:16 pm US/Central

DPD: Robbery Victims Attacked, Just Not With Bats

Reporting
J.D. Miles
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ― Two violent robberies took place Wednesday night in the 2600 and the 3200 blocks of Greenville Avenue.

"I got my teeth knocked out and my lips busted up," said Skylar Lampton, one of the robbery victims. "Never been hit like that before."

Initially, police said one of the women was hit with a baseball bat.  On Friday, Dallas Police Sgt. Gil Cerda said the woman was indeed hit with some kind of object--just not with a bat.

The teenager has stitches in her mouth, broken teeth, swollen lips and other injuries. She said a group of robbers surprised her and a group of friends walking from a convenience store on the 2600 block of Greenville Avenue.

"I looked behind me, and there was a group of guys. I didn't think much of it," she said. "Before I knew it, I was knocked to the ground."

Lampton was hit and robbed of her cell phone and $20.

It happened just after midnight and witnesses at a nearby restaurant called police.

An hour later on the 3200 block of Greenville, a 26-year-old woman was also approached by a group of men.

A police report states the men "had a bat and stated, 'Give me your (expletive) now.'" That victim was not injured.

Police will not say if the attacks are connected, but the descriptions are similar.

The mother of one of the victim's thinks police should issue a public warning to those who frequent the popular entertainment district.

"I want something done because they're going to do this to other people they could have killed her," said Leah Lampton, Skylar's mother.

A third robbery occurred early Thursday morning at an apartment complex on the 9000 block of Markville. Police say a man there was robbed at gunpoint. Police believe the suspect could be connected to the first two robberies.

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