Wichita police search for teenage Hutchinson couple who robbed woman

Wichita police are investigating a robbery of a 23-year-old Hutchinson woman who offered a teenage couple a ride to Wichita.

At 4:45 a.m. Tuesday, Wichita police were called to a parking lot in the 1300 block of South Topeka. The 23-year-old woman told police she gave a 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl a ride from Hutchinson to Wichita, according to Wichita police Lt. James Espinoza.

The woman said that the 15-year-old told her to pull into the parking lot on South Topeka and as soon as she did, he pulled out a handgun and began to threaten her for money, Espinoza said.

The woman gave the teen $460, she said. The two teens than ran northeast from the vehicle and have not yet been apprehended, police said.

The woman was not injured.

This story was originally published March 8, 2016 at 12:14 PM with the headline "Wichita police search for teenage Hutchinson couple who robbed woman."