sfpd_squad.jpgA man was hit in the head with a brick during a robbery in San Francisco’s Mission District early this morning, police said.

The robbery was reported at 2:59 a.m. at 18th and Capp streets.

The victim, a 28-year-old man, told police that two men armed with a knife and a brick had approached him and demanded money.

When he refused to give them what they wanted, one of the would-be robbers hit him in the head with a brick and the pair fled, police said.

The victim was taken to San Francisco General Hospital to be treated for a cut to his eyebrow, police said.

The suspects, described as men in their 20s, were not found.

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