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Manatee Deputies: Robbers' Gun May Have Been Toy

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Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Published: December 3, 2007

LAKEWOOD RANCH - Two men attempted to rob a group outside of a Lakewood Ranch apartment building on Sunday, possibly with a cap gun.

Suzanne Caiati, 24, Baha Alnatsheh, 25, and Feraser Hamdan, 26, were going to Caiati's Natures Way apartment about 12:30 a.m. when they were accosted by a pair of masked assailants. One of the robbers had a gun, deputies said.

According to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, the men, wearing bandannas over their faces, told the trio to undress and demanded money.

Hamdan reportedly told the robbers that a police officer lived next door, prompting the two men to flee, firing the handgun into the air, which the victims said looked like a cap gun.

Hamdan and Alnatsheh chased the men, who got in a car and drove away. The victims said the assailants appeared to be teenagers.

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