Keegan Allen Says He Was Beaten and Robbed in West Hollywood

Actor Keegan Allen, 37, said two masked men beat and robbed him at gun and knifepoint in West Hollywood on Thursday. The Guardian

Allen, known for Pretty Little Liars, described the assault in a social media video posted Thursday. He said it happened outside Laurel Supply on the 8400 block of Santa Monica Boulevard. Two men hit him in the head, pointed a gun at him, held a knife, and then took off. Both attackers wore masks.

The video was graphic. Allen appeared with blood running down the left side of his face and neck. He raised a blood-stained hand to the camera. The clip also included surveillance footage of the encounter near the rear passenger side of an open pickup truck. In that footage, two men confront him, one holding a knife and the other holding a gun.

The footage shows the sequence closely. Allen unclasps a watch from his wrist. The man with the pistol then strikes him in the head twice. Allen said the men stole his Rolex watch. NBC Los Angeles In a caption with the post, he wrote that the two attackers threatened to kill him over his watch. The robbery occurred Thursday night. Yahoo

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed it is investigating a violent robbery matching the weapons, block and time described by Allen. In a statement on Friday, the department said the robbers demanded a watch and bracelet at knifepoint and gunpoint. One robber pistol-whipped the victim — hit him with the gun — causing a laceration, or deep cut, to his forehead. The attackers then fled in a car with the victim's watch.

Accounts differ on medical care. According to the Sheriff's office, first responders treated the victim at the scene but did not take him to a hospital. Allen, in a reply to his Thursday video, wrote that he was definitely concussed and at hospital. A concussion is a brain injury from a blow to the head. Investigators have not publicly reconciled those two accounts.

Allen also used his Thursday post to ask West Hollywood authorities directly to use Flock Safety license plate cameras, automated cameras that record license plates, to capture the robbers.

The broader context here is the meeting of self-published evidence and a formal investigation. Allen gave three things at once: his account, images of his injury, and surveillance video. That shortens the usual timeline, so the public hears the victim's story before officials release findings. The Sheriff's Department has confirmed the core parts while adding a detail Allen did not stress in his spoken account, the demand for a bracelet as well as a watch. The points to follow are identification of the vehicle, recovery of the watch, and whether medical records clarify the concussion claim. None of those have been settled in the statements so far.