First to Report: CBS Sacramento crew robbed, injured following live broadcast

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The Robbery took place at UC Davis according to reports

A Sacramento television station crew was the victim of a brazen robbery early Thursday morning after delivering a live broadcast on a domestic violence awareness campaign.

University police in Davis said the crew was robbed around 5:10 a.m. along Tennis Court Lane. According to a news release, an unknown suspect approached a camera that was set up on a tripod and grabbed the equipment before fleeing to a nearby vehicle. A brief struggle ensued before the suspect was able to get away with the equipment.

The victim in the incident sustained minor injuries, police said. Details of the robbery was reported by the Davis Enterprise newspaper based on the news release issued by police earlier in the morning.

Police did not name the news crew that was targeted by the alleged thieves, but sources confirmed to The Desk on Thursday that reporter Dina Kupfer and photojournalist Scott Zentner of KOVR (Channel 13) were involved. Video footage reviewed by The Desk showed Kupfer and Zentner were broadcasting a segment on a domestic violence awareness campaign at U.C. Davis minutes before the alleged robbery.

After The Desk identified the crew Thursday morning, Kupfer told the Sacramento Bee she was “shaken” but otherwise unharmed. Zentner later gave an interview to the newspaper in which he admitted the suspected thieves took advantage of his decision to leave the station’s broadcast equipment unattended while he worked to fix a technical problem inside the crew’s live truck.