Mugger Attacks 101-Yr-Old Woman
85-Year-Old With Walker Also Assaulted; Suspect Claimed To Be Helpful
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Surveillance video shows the suspect assaulting 101-year-old Rose Morat before stealing her purse and knocking her from her walker. (NYPD)
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101-year-old Rose Morat showed her fractured and bruised face. (WCBS)
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85-year-old Solange Elizee was also assaulted outside her apartment door. (WCBS)
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Shortly afterward, the same suspect victimized an 85-year-old woman, also using a walker, police said Friday as they pressed the public for tips that could identify him.
The attacks took place in separate buildings in the Jamaica section of Queens last Sunday.
The suspect, a black male in his 30s, is wanted in a string of neighborhood robberies.
Rose Morat, 101 years old, was assaulted in her apartment building's lobby around 12:30 p.m. The suspect, who pulled a ski mask down over his face, was seen in security-camera footage opening the door for Morat before throwing a flurry of punches at her as she steadies herself against her walker.
"I was not unconscious, but I was startled, and I thought: What happened?" said Morat.
The suspect appeared to spit on his victim as he made off with her pocketbook.
About a half-hour later, 85-year-old Solange Elizee was assaulted outside her apartment a half-mile from Morat's. Police said the suspect followed her on an elevator and got out on a different floor from hers, but then ran up the stairs and confronted her at her apartment door.
Elizee said he had asked her in the elevator what floor she was headed to, explaining, "I like to help old people."
But as she went to close her door, he threatened her, Elizee said. She said the suspect also beat her in the face and pushed her down. "I got blood coming out of my mouth," she said.
Her handbag was taken, police said.
Morat was battered and bruised but unfazed. As she told WCBS correspondent Dave Carlin, "God doesn't want me up there, he wants me down here."
Both women said they would have just given the man money if he'd just asked them; instead they were both hospitalized.
The mugger's take? $33 from Morat, $45 from Elizee, along with her wedding ring.
"I feel sorry for him that he has to stoop so low to get money," Morat said. "The man must be a sick man."
"I could ask him if he has a mother, a grandmother, too," Elizee said. "You know something? I am praying for him."
The suspect was riding a reddish-pink bicycle and wearing a winter jacket with a fur collar around the hood at the time of the attacks.
Anyone with information on either of these cases is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS.
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It took three blows from a drug addict to knock her down. LOL
Life lesson?
Treat and teach the children; or be prepared to die young, less the children grow up to come back and haunt you in your old age!
It took three blows from a drug addict to knock her down. LOL
Life lesson?
Treat and teach the children well.
Or be prepared to die young, less the children grow up to come back and haunt you in your old age!
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by bobbymetal
March 12, 2007 12:24 PM PDT
- If the woman had been a 101 year old black woman and the attacker a white male, all hell would have broken loose compliments of th liberal media. This would be the lead story every night for a month. Every black rhyming reverend in the nation would be in front of the cameras demanding an end to white racism. The real problem is "black crime" and the refusal of society to do anything about it. Black males (7% of the population) commit 60% of the violent rapes, robberies and murders in this country and anybody that dares to point that out is immediately branded a racist.
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