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TICK IN CRIME. >> YOU USED TO BE ABLE TO WALK HERE ALONE AND HAVE NO WORRIES WHATSOEVER. NOW YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL. VANESSA: BALTIMORE POLICE SAY A MOTHER HOLDING GROCERY BAGS AND CARRYING HER 5-WEEK-OLD SON WAS WALKING IN THE 1700 BLOCK OF WEBSTER STREET TUESDAY AFTERNOON WHEN THREE TEENAGERS APPROACHED HER. >> THE IMMEDIATELY WALKED UP TO HER AND DEMANDED HER CELL PHONE. VANESSA: IT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE 2:00 TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THE SUSPECTS ARE TWO GIRLS, 15- -- 15 AND 16-YEAR-OLD AND A 16-YEAR-OLD BOY. ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS, THE 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL HAD A BB GUN. >> THEY ASSAULTED HER, THEY PISTOL WHIPPED HER AND THEY WERE ABLE TO TAKE HER CELL PHONE AWAY. THE 16-YEAR-OLD BOY, WHILE THIS WAS TAKING PLACE, HE STOOD AND LOOKED OUT TO MAKE SURE NOBODY ELSE WAS COMING. VANESSA: MOTHER AND SON SUFFERED SOME ABRASIONS AND SCRATCHES. POLICE SAY THE WOMAN’S DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUSPECTS ALLOWED THEM TO MAKE QUICK ARRESTS. >> THIS IS A CRIME OF OPPORTUNITY. >> I DON’T SEE HOW THEY WOULD POSE A THREAT. VANESSA: THE SUSPECTS ARE CHARGED AS JUVENILES. >> IT WAS NOT LIKE A CHILDLIKE ACCIDENT. THEY MADE AN ADULT DECISION. VANESSA: SOME RESIDENTS SAY THEY’RE NOW PAYING EXTRA ATTENTION TO THEIR SURROUNDINGS. >> IT IS A MATTER OF BEING VIGILANT. YOU HAVE TO BE LOOKING THE OTHER WAY EVERY SINGLE TIME AND KEEPING YOUR EYE OPEN FOR THINGS OUT OF THE NORM. VANESSA: BALTIMORE POLICE SAY THE SUSPECTS HAD THE WOMAN’S PHONE AND A BB GUN WHEN THEY WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM,

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Three juveniles are in police custody, accused of robbing a woman at gunpoint and striking her while she was a carrying her 5-week-old son.Baltimore police said the two girls and one boy walked up to the woman in the 1700 block of Webster Street in south Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon. Police are commending the mother for her bravery. Officials said the woman protected her young son while getting good descriptions of her attackers.The information she gave police helped them make arrests a short time after the assault, officials said."You used to be able to walk here alone and have no worries whatsoever, and now you just have to be very careful and make sure you're walking with someone," resident Patricia Riska said. Baltimore police said the mother, holding grocery bags and carrying her 5-week-old son, was walking when the three teenagers approached her."They immediately walked up to her and demanded her cellphone," Detective Donny Moses, of the Baltimore Police Department, said.It happened just before 2 p.m. Tuesday. The suspects are two girls, 15 and 16 years old, and a 16-year-old boy.According to investigators, the 15-year-old girl had a BB gun."The 15-year-old girl and the 16-year-old girl, they assaulted her, they pistol-whipped her and ultimately, they were able to take her cellphone away. The 16-year-old boy, while this assault was taking place, he stood and looked out and made sure police or nobody else was coming," Moses said.The mother and son suffered some abrasions and scratches."Definitely, this was a crime of opportunity. These three suspects, they saw somebody that looked vulnerable," Moses said."I don't see how she would pose a threat that they would have to pistol-whip her," resident Simon Moroney said.The teenagers are charged as juveniles, officials said."It wasn't a childlike accident. They made an adult decision to assault a woman holding a baby, and they need a lot of time to think about what they've done, as far as I'm concerned," resident Brandon Nicklas said. Some residents said they're now paying extra attention to their surroundings.Baltimore police said the suspects had the woman's phone and a BB gun when they were taken into custody.​