A Dayton man was robbed at gunpoint by a suspect who first squirted a burning liquid at him from a squirt gun.

Officers were dispatched around 1 a.m. Thursday to the area of Miami Chapel Road where a man reported he had been robbed just fifteen minutes earlier, according to Dayton police records.

The complainant said he was walking east on Miami Chapel when he saw a black male running toward him yelling for help.

The suspect appeared to be running from two other black males, according to the complainant, but then the suspect pulled out a water gun and shot him in the face with a liquid that burned his eyes, according to records.

The assailant then punched the victim in the face, pulled out a real gun and ordered him to give him anything he had. 

The alleged robber took $8, a cell phone and the complainant's Franklin baseball hat before fleeing west toward Broadway.

The complainant described the suspect as being "very dirty," according to records.