NYPD Seeks Woman Who Mugged 85-Year-Old for $7

Victim was hospitalized after Saturday attack
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 23, 2020 6:05 PM CST
NYPD Says Woman Shoved Man, 85, to Ground, Stole $7
Police released this image of the suspect.   (NYPD)

The New York Police Department is appealing for the public's help in finding a woman who violently mugged an 85-year-old man on a street in the Bronx on Saturday morning. Surveillance video released by police shows the woman, who appears to be in her 20s, going through the victim's pockets after he was shoved to the ground, Fox reports. Police say she fled after stealing $7, leaving the victim on the sidewalk, the New York Daily News reports. The man was hospitalized in critical condition. (More mugging stories.)

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