by KYW's Mike DeNardo
A week after the murder of a Starbucks manager on a center city subway platform, it's another case of an underground attack just a few blocks away.
This one happened in the Gallery, near a t-shirt kiosk, on Wednesday night around 8pm.
Police say a 24-year-old woman was robbed and beaten by as many as a dozen teenagers and young adults. The victim was knocked to the floor and suffered a broken tooth.
SEPTA spokesman Richard Maloney says the victim ran to the Broad Street subway spur for help:
"She fled from the Gallery into the 8th Street station of the Broad Street Subway, where she reported the incident to the cashier. By coincidence, the five thugs came out of the Gallery, ran onto a Broad Street subway train. The cashier called SEPTA police, who effected an arrest at the Fairmount station."
Five people -- three females and two males -- face charges of robbery and assault. The identities of two minors were not revealed. The other three were identified by police as (top to bottom) Stanley Poland, Tamira Sinkler, and Christine Wearry.
The attack comes a week after the murder of Starbucks manager Sean Conroy, who police say died after he was beaten by a group of teenagers in the subway concourse at 13th and Market Streets (see related story).
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