Delco Crime Spree Victim Speaks Out

A crime spree in Delaware County leaves shaken victims feeling lucky to be alive.

In a story you'll see only on Fox, one man describes his fear as he waited to see if the robbers would take his life.

Criminals have targeted their victims in Springfield, Brookhaven, Nether Providence and even on the campus of Swarthmore College, reported Fox 29's Claudia Gomez.

There is not yet any evidence that all four crimes are connected.

One robbery victim told Fox 29 he prayed for his life, as the mugger held what might have been a gun to his head. Minutes later, it happened again on the campus of Swarthmore College.

Now police are looking into whether those robberies are linked to two more crimes Thursday morning.

"All of a sudden, I was jumped," recounts the robbery victim.

We're not revealing his identity because the two young men who robbed him are still out there. He had just gotten to his vehicle in the parking lot of a drug store in Springfield Township late Tuesday night, when one robber sucker punched him and said -

'"Get on the ground.' Wanted to know where my wallet was. He said, ‘Don't look up. If you look up, I have a gun,'" recalls the victim. "I just said, 'Take what you need and leave me alone.'"

About 40 minutes later and less than two miles away, it happened again to a law student on the campus of Swarthmore College.

"He was hit from behind, knocked to the ground. Something hard was placed against the back of his head, which he believed to be a firearm,” says Chief Brian Craig of Swarthmore Police Department.

It happened as the victim walked to his car just before midnight.

"One of the two suspects said at least two times, 'Should we shoot him? Should we shoot him?'" says Chief Craig.

Police are looking into whether the two incidents are connected.

"As close as they were in date and time, the fact that there was two males at each occurrence, I'm sure that there's some kind of relationship that we'll be able to track down," says Lt. Bill Clark of Springfield Township Police Deptartment.

They're also looking at two new crimes Thursday morning. A witness saw two young men, fitting the same description as the robbers, steal a car outside a town home in Nether Providence, right next to Swarthmore. Minutes later, police say the stolen car sped away from a hit-and-run in Brookhaven,, less than a mile away.

"I just don't want it to happen to somebody else. I mean, it's bad enough. Like I said, I got off easy," says the victim.

Police did recover the stolen car in Chester Township. But they did not find a gun, or any stolen property.

So at this point, police have no evidence linking the crimes.

Anyone with information is asked to call police.