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Two women robbed at mall; police ask public for help in apprehending suspect Shoppers were moving in and out of the Westfield Mall in Massapequa on Friday morning, most unaware that the night before a woman and her daughter were held up there by an armed gunman who demanded their handbags and fled. "I didn't hear about it," said Lucia Troiano of North Massapequa, who was at the mall shopping on Friday. "It doesn't scare me; it happens. You just need to be aware of what is around you." NassauCountyPolice said that the woman and her 26-year-old daughter were confronted at approximately 9:23 p.m., May 31, by a subject described only as a Black male wearing dark clothing. The victims, who police did not identify, were at the south Macy's exit when the robber came out of the shadows, apparently from nowhere. He approached the two women armed with a silver handgun and demanded their bags. When the victims complied, the subject fled southeast on foot toward the railroad trestle. No security cameras caught the incident, police added, and there were no physical injuries. "This can happen anywhere," said another shopper who identified herself only as Joann. "It's not the mall's fault, it's bad all over." "I feel safe," said shopper Carman Delabra. "This doesn't bother me at all." Police said incidents such as this are rare at the mall. "What we get are a lot of break-ins to cars and petit larceny, the smaller stuff," said a police spokesman.
Nassau Police held a press conference asking for the public's help in apprehending the subject. Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS. All callers will remain anonymous.
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