Woman strikes back when man tries to rob her in lot

The Associated Press

A man tried to rob a Sharon woman Monday morning by the automatic teller machine outside of Sharon City Centre, 40 S. Water Ave., but the woman stopped the man, police said.

After the woman withdrew money from the machine at 8:30 a.m., she was looking under the hood of her car when she felt an object in her back and a man told her not to turn around, she told police.

The woman turned around and hit the man in the face, police said. They said the man hit her in the left eye and ran.

The woman told police the man had a pocket knife. She told police her attacker was a white man about 5 feet 8 inches tall with shoulder length, light brown hair. She said the man had a scar under his left eye and a tattoo of an eagle on his left forearm. One wing of the eagle wrapped around his arm, and the other wing looked unfinished, she told police. The man was wearing a gray and blue T-shirt and dirty blue jeans.

Police said the woman was treated by her family doctor for an injury to her eye.

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