21-Year-Old Man Assaulted on Harrison Avenue

For the second time in nearly a week, a man was assaulted while walking along Harrison Avenue near Chestnut Street early Thursday morning, West Orange police said.

In the latest incident, a 21-year-old area resident was walking in the neighborhood at 12:04 a.m. when two black teenagers approached him and struck him in the the face at least twice.

The man reported nothing was taken from him and he sustained minor injuries -- cuts and bruises. He refused medical treatment.

The victim described the suspects as between the ages of 18 and 21 with one suspect approximately 5-foot, 8-inches tall and the other suspect around 6-feet tall.

A spokesman for the West Orange Police Department’s Detective Bureau had no further information about the assault.

In the earlier unrelated incident, an  was reported at Harrison Avenue and Chestnut Street on Sunday. 

Anyone with information is asked to call the West Orange Police Department Detective Bureau at (973) 325-4020.