HOUSTON (KIAH) — Police are searching for suspects who assaulted and robbed a man inside the lobby of a Galleria-area hotel.
Police said that around 5:40 a.m. Friday morning, Aug.1, two men got out of a white sedan at the Doubletree Hotel at the 5300 block of Westheimer Road, went into the lobby towards the elevators, and assaulted a man who just arrived at the hotel. They forced the victim to the ground with an unknown object, grabbed his property, and ran out of the lobby into the sedan.
The incident was captured on surveillance video.
Houston police investigators said that the victim had just arrived at the hotel after winning a large sum of money from a poker game at a private social club at the 6100 block of Westheimer. They believe the suspects followed the victim from the club to the hotel…