By Truman Dickerson, Special to the Reporter
Police are searching for two teenagers who allegedly assaulted a pregnant woman in a Dorchester supermarket Sunday. One of the suspects threw a stolen tub of yogurt at the woman’s face, according to a police report.
Police responded to a reported larceny in progress around 1 p.m. at Brother’s Market, a supermarket on Dudley Street, police said.
Two managers told police that a group of teenagers “came into the store and attempted to steal items” but employees at the store blocked the door and the teenagers put back the items and walked out, the report said.
One of the teenagers then walked back into the store and stole “a tub of yogurt and put it in her pocket” before walking back out, the report said.
A worker at the store, who was described in the report as seven months pregnant, followed the teen “to retrieve the yogurt,” the report said.
The worker told police that as she approached the teen, “another female pushed her back.”
“The female who stole the yogurt then threw the yogurt at her hitting her in the left side of the face,” the report said.
Police described the teen who allegedly threw the yogurt as a “light-skinned female, about 14-18 years old, [with] long bright red hair in a ponytail.”
Police described the teen who allegedly pushed the pregnant woman as a “black female, about 14-18 years old, [with] long bright red wavy hair.”
Boston police are asking anyone with information to call 617-343-4275.
This story is part of a partnership between the Dorchester Reporter and the Boston University Department of Journalism.
