NEW YORK – Here’s a tip for the guy who beat up a 101-year-old woman in a walker and took off with her purse: Get out of New York.
The vicious mugging, caught on surveillance tape, has sparked outrage in a city where people are accustomed to hearing about strange and violent crimes. Police have launched an all-out manhunt, but it’s not just the cops who want the villain’s head.
“I could hold him, and let the woman beat him up,” said Joe Sarju, 59, who lives in the Queens neighborhood where the attack occurred. “I’d love to beat him, but then they would lock me up.”
The heartlessness of the March 4 attack is clearly conveyed on the grainy, black-and-white videotape, which has now been broadcast well beyond New York.
In it, 101-year-old Rose Morat is trying to leave her apartment building to go to church. The mugger, a man who looms over the senior citizen and is holding onto a bicycle, pretends to help her get through the vestibule.
Then, he turns to grab Morat’s head and delivers three hard punches to her face, and swipes her purse. The dazed victim tries to reach for her purse when the mugger hits her again, pushing her and her walker to the ground.
He got away with $33 and Morat’s house keys. She suffered a fractured cheekbone and spent time in the hospital. The attack didn’t break Morat’s spirit, though: She has said in the days since that if she had been just a bit younger, she would have gone after the guy.
“I’m a very strong woman,” she said. “I’ve been that way my whole life.”
The NYPD has assigned dozens of detectives to the case and shown every uniformed officer in the city the surveillance video. Police are canvassing nearby residential buildings and businesses.
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Posted by Rich (subbing for Lo)
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>I love how feisty she is at 101. She's like I'd kick his ass if I were younger. LOVES it!
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>not to be cynical…but how is it thats the NYPD can raise hell along with the city about a mugger robbing a 101-year old white woman?…….but months ago in the ATL, the police illegally raided the home of an 88-year old black woman, shoots her dead, but no national outrage?where's the justice, even when it's by the justice?thank God this lady survived the attack, but what about the one who didn't?
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>People have lost their minds. How would he feel if that was his grandmother? Lance, I also see your point. When I heard about that, I couldn't believe it. The woman thought someone was trying to break in on her and I don't blame her, I would have been shooting too.
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