- November 8, 2024
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A Daytona State College student was hanging out at the benches near Greenway Court at Linear Park July 27 before a class when he was beaten and robbed by three masked men, he told Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputies.
The man, a 19-year-old Palatka resident, said the robbery happened at about 5 p.m. when three men approached him wearing black clothes, black masks and black gloves, according to a Sheriff’s Office case report.
One of the masked men punched the student in the eye, knocking him to the ground, and then all three started kicking him and demanding money, he said.
He gave them a $20 bill, and they left.
The student didn’t report the robbery till 9:49 p.m., telling a deputy that he hadn’t wanted to report it at all and only did so at the urging of a Palm Coast resident whose home he was staying at when deputies interviewed him about he incident.
A deputy wrote in a case report that the man’s eye was bruised, with a laceration beneath it, and that a lens had been knocked out of his glasses.
The student refused to complete a written statement but did fill out some information at the top of the statement form, according to the deputy ’s report.
