A 21-year old Madison woman was robbed on her walk home early Wednesday morning around 12:35 a.m.
According to a police report, a man approached the woman at a North Pinckney Street parking lot asking her for a cigarette. The victim then offered him a cigarette, and while she opened her purse another woman, who was with the man, grabbed for the bag. The victim struggled with the attackers as they tried to take her purse.
The thieves took off with the victim's purse after she was sprayed with something, but she was not injured.
An officer smelled the victim's clothing and said whatever was sprayed smelled like chlorine, police said.
The victim said the man was black, 18-20 years old and the woman was black, 18 years old.
The woman said there was also a third person, possibly a black woman, with the suspects, according to the incident report.
