Man struck, robbed after visiting ATM

The victim told police he and his two assailants had been playing pool at the First Edition bar on East Washington Street.

He said he left a little before 9:30 p.m. and went to a kiosk in the Washington Square Shopping Center to get some money and go on his way, authorities said.

He was walking toward Mervyn's off McDowell Boulevard when the two pool players approached him and one struck him in the face with an unknown object, police said.

The two men then seized an undisclosed sum of money and fled in a dark green or dark blue Honda, authorities said.

Police said they do not believe Friday's 9:25 p.m. robbery is related to a carjacking in the same area last week.

In that case, a woman left the First Edition and went to a nearby Safeway around 1:40 a.m.

She was getting out of a car to go into the store when another patron she had seen at the bar approached her, pointed something at her back and forced her back into the vehicle.

He drove with her a short distance before ordering her out of the car, which he then drove away, police said.

Police have asked that anyone who witnessed either incident contact authorities at 778-4372.

-- Mary Callahan