Elk Grove Police Investigating Assault, Armed Robbery With Gunshots

May 23, 2016 |

An early Friday morning assault and gunpoint robbery is under investigation by Elk Grove Police.

Police officers contacted the victim at an area hospital who was being treated for a facial injury. The victim was a passenger in a vehicle near Black Kite Drive and Springhouse Way that was occupied by the suspect and other individuals. The victim knows the suspect, whose name has not been released, through a mutual friend.

When the victim was getting dropped off, the suspect pointed a handgun at victim, and when he pushed the handgun away, he was struck in the face causing the handgun to discharge. The suspect then pushed the victim against the vehicle and took his personal property.

The suspect fled the scene in the vehicle that they had arrived in.