In less than an hour after the school day ended, four students were targeted in robberies while walking home from Los Alamitos High School.
The pair of thieves came up to a male student and gestured at a concealed weapon while demanding that he give up his cell phone and wallet. After obtaining the valuables, they went on to snatch a cell phone from a 15-year-old girl’s hand; when they realized that the cell phone did not work, they shoved it back into her hands and ran away. Minutes later they pushed a boy and a girl up against a vehicle, slapped the boy, and took his wallet, iPad, and cell phone. One of the robbers then proceeded to touch the female student in a manner that the Los Alamitos Police Department classified as sexual battery.
“After they took my stuff, they started getting closer to the girl. I tried to get their attention back on me so they wouldn’t hurt the girl, but they still touched her,” said Cameron Austin, a victim of the robbery, during a television interview.
LAPD officials are currently in the process of trying to find fingerprints or DNA samples on the cell phone that had been returned to one of the female victims.
“I was so surprised when I heard about [the robberies] last night,” one sophomore, Tyler Park, commented after the incident. “I thought these things weren’t supposed to happen in Los Al. It just goes to show that you always have to keep an eye out for anything that may damage your safety.”
On Friday January 20th, LAHS teachers were advised to discuss the crime with their students and assure them that the police department was doing their best to catch the thieves. Many instructors encouraged teenagers to keep a careful eye on their surroundings and report any suspicions or details to school district administrators or police officials.
ABC News and KTLA were present on campus from morning until school got out.
The Los Alamitos Unified School District serves nearly 10,000 students in Seal Beach, Rossmoor, and Los Alamitos. The district includes Los Alamitos High School, a full service high school, Laurel High School, a continuation high school, McAuliffe Middle School, Oak Middle School, and six elementary schools. Mrs. Meg Cutuli is the current President of the Board of Education. Dr. Sherry Kropp is the Superintendent of the Los Alamitos Unified School District.
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