Two robbed at gunpoint in LR's River Market district

— Police are looking for a man who robbed two women of their purses at gunpoint Monday in Little Rock's River Market district.

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The Little Rock Police Department said the women were walking in a parking lot in the 600 block of President Clinton Avenue about 7:20 p.m. when a man pointed a handgun at them and demanded their purses. The two women handed them over, and the man left north through the lot, according to a report.

The robber is described as a black man between 17 and 20 years old who stands about 5-foot-4 and weighs about 120 pounds. He was wearing a yellow-and-red bandanna, a burgundy hat and baggy bluejeans, the report said.

Police say the purses and some of the contents were recovered in the area.

No arrests have been made.

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