BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) ---- Three robbers beat a 13-year-old boy with a belt and stole his sneakers on a Brooklyn street Friday, police said.
Two men and a woman attacked the teen near 17th Street and Fourth Avenue at around 3:15 p.m., according to the NYPD. The suspects repeatedly hit the boy with a belt before stealing his sneakers, police said.
The trio then ran into the train station at Prospect Avenue and got on the northbound R train, police said. There have been no arrests.
The boy refused medical attention.
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Mira Wassef is a digital reporter who has covered news and sports in the New York City area for more than a decade. She joined PIX11 News in 2022. See more of her work here.