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You're at your desk at the Daily Dazzle newspaper
in San Jose. You've got a couple hours before your deadline
and you're making beat checks, calling the fire departments,
police departments and paramedics in the county to see
if anything is going on. Lo and behold, something is.
Mountain View police Lt.
Larry Bertuccelli tells you they just took a guy into
El Camino Hospital (in Mountain View) with head wounds.
It looks like he was beaten during a robbery.
The lieutenant
tells you the victim, who's 24 and whose name they
are not releasing, was lured into an apartment in
his own apartment complex at 2200 California St.
where he was beaten and robbed. The assailants
also took the guy's car keys and drove off in his
Toyota Corolla. This happened about 9:00 a.m. today.
Police aren't disclosing the apartment number. Oh, and
the weapon? It looks like he was hit again and again
with a toilet lid.
Investigators think the two
unidentified men who beat and robbed the guy may
actually live in the apartment where the robbery took
place. There was another robbery similar to this one
just after midnight (12:30 a.m.) today in the same complex.
That victim said two guys offered to sell him a VCR
cheap. He wasn't beaten, just robbed. Police are
looking for the tenants.
Write a hard news story for
tomorrow's newspaper.
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