PALO ALTO – A man was assaulted and a woman was robbed in separate incidents over the weekend in Palo Alto, police said.
The assault was reported just after 3:45 p.m. Saturday at the University Avenue Caltrain station. The victim, a man in his 50s, was standing on the platform when he got into a verbal altercation with another man he did not know, according to the Palo Alto Police Department.
The suspect punched the victim in the face and the pair fell to the ground, police said in a statement, adding that a second female suspect hit the victim in the head several times with an aluminum thermos.
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