PD: Assault Victims Lured With Social Media App

Anyone with information about the attacks is urged to contact Worcester police detectives at (508) 799-8651

Police are asking for the public’s help to find assailants who viciously attacked two men in Worcester, Massachusetts, this week after they arranged to meet a woman at her apartment via a social media dating app.

One victim told police that he when he arrived last Monday at the Laurel Street apartment building where he planned to meet a woman he was messaging, two men approached him in a stairway, attacked him and stole his cell phone.

On Sunday, another victim told police he was stabbed after he was told to meet a woman on Laurel Street through a dating app. The suspects did not succeed in robbing the victim. His injuries are considered non-life threatening.

Anyone with information about the attacks is urged to contact Worcester police detectives at (508) 799-8651.

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