Dec 4, 2007 7:59 pm US/Eastern
Another Elderly Attack: Queens Woman, 80, Robbed
Two Young Men Beat Victim, Run Off With Her Handbag
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Police say this man was one of two suspects who are accused of attacking and robbing an 80-year-old Far Rockaway woman.
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This is the second suspect accused of attacking and robbing an 80-year-old woman in Far Rockaway.
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Police are searching for two men who they say attacked an elderly woman in Queens and ran off with her handbag.
Surveillance camera images show the suspects following an 80-year-old woman into an elevator in her apartment on Seagirt Blvd. in Far Rockaway, before assaulting her, snatching her pocketbook, and running away.
"I am really just appalled by this being that I am not far from being a senior citizen myself, going to work, traveling through these basements. It's scary," said resident Aldonia Riley.
The robbery happened at 10:30 at night in October, but police released the surveillance images Monday. The suspects appear to be young black males, perhaps in their teens or twenties. One is wearing a grey hoodie and dark jeans, the other wearing a black t-shirt with white lettering, though it's hard to make out what the lettering reads. He's also wearing a hat, red sneakers, and appeared to be listening to a portable music device.
In the Wavecrest Gardens By The Sea complex, elderly residents are as upset by this robbery on an elderly resident as they were by a string of similar attacks in a different Queens neighborhood eight months ago.
In those attacks, police say a man could be seen knocking down a 101-year-old woman three times. Jack Rhodes, 44, was picked out of a police lineup and has now been charged with hate crimes because police say he always targeted elderly women. If convicted, he faces up to 90 years in prison.
Anyone with information on this latest attack is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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