Boston police are searching for two suspects in an assault and battery in the city's Beacon Hill neighborhood Friday night.
Police said the assault was reported just before 10 p.m. near 150 Charles Street. Responding officers spoke with the victim, who said the suspects fled West Cedar Street.
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On Monday, Brenna Martinez told NBC10 Boston she had been walking home from JP Licks on Charles Street, holding the ice cream she had just picked up.
"I walked through the alleyway, I heard someone behind me," Martinez says.
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She turned to see two men. One of them grabbed her.
"He had his arms around me, the ice cream kind of went into my chest, and I fully thought I was going to die right then," Martinez said. "I didn't think he was trying to rob me, I did not get that impression."
She said she screamed, and the men slipped on ice, taking off running toward West Cedar Street.
Martinez called Boston police, but she said the department wouldn't put out the men's descriptions and that a dispatcher hung up on her.
"I don't know, like, what I would have done with myself if I had learned that another girl had been attacked right after I had, and I was so mad -- I was, I was so mad that the police department wasn't putting a description out of what they looked like, because I told them."
Boston police said in their press release that one suspect was described as a male in his 20s with a skinny build, wearing all black. The second was described as a male in his late 20s wearing a grey beanie.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call Boston police or make an anonymous tip through CrimeStoppers at 1-800-494-TIPS or by texting the word "TIP" to CRIME (27463).
