A robbery of a 99-year-old woman by a 17-year-old in Connecticut occurred Wednesday morning in the Windsor area. ABC News reports that police have arrested the suspect who they say stole the woman’s purse while she was delivering cookies to a community center.
The incident happened around 9 a.m. at the L.P. Wilson Community Center. A 17-year-old ran up to the older woman, snatched her purse, and made a run for it.
Police say the suspect wasn’t armed and the victim wasn’t injured, despite being knocked to the ground during the robbery. It’s unknown how much money was in the purse.
Police aren’t releasing the teen’s name because he’s a minor. He’s charged with third-degree robbery, sixth-degree larceny, and assault on an elderly person.
The Juvenile Court is handling his case.
This 99-year-old woman is luckier than a 79-year-old woman from Mississippi who was robbed in October. She suffered severe bruises and broken ribs from the attack. Joyce Covington believes four men chose her as their target that day because she was an easy one. At first she thought it was nice that one of the men offered to open her apartment door when she got home, but she soon learned there was a reason. She was pushed down and robbed of her purse. They wound up with $9. Now Convington is too afraid to go to Walmart because of what happened that Saturday night.
MS News Now reports that police arrested Franklin Roseman, 21, Eldra Hands, 19, Terrance Orange, 19, and Antarious Boyd, 19, and charged them all with robbery.
In 2013, My Fox Detroit reported on a 92-year-old woman who had $1,200 in cash in her purse stolen inside a Meijer store in Waterford, Michigan. Luckily, the store video camera captured the whole thing. The suspect was closely watching the woman for the right time to swipe her shopping cart. When the lady was busy looking at fruit in the produce section, the suspect took her cart and purse. The victim’s shopping cart and purse were found a few aisles away inside the store, but the money was missing.
Police later arrested Deborah Lynn Simmons, who had a criminal history dating back to 1985. A warrant was out for her arrest for absconding parole. When the unnamed victim was asked by a reporter how she felt about the criminal, she said the woman “is evil.”
The Inquisitr has reported on similar instances before. Not even the elderly are immune from young people robbing them.
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