LOWER MANHATTAN, N.Y. — Police are looking for the mugger who brutally threw an elderly woman to the ground as she tried to pass through the turnstile at a Lower Manhattan subway station. The heinous attack was captured on surveillance video.
According to police, the 81-year-old woman was trying to enter the Fulton Street station at Church St. on Jan. 4 at around 11:40 p.m., and had just swiped her Metrocard when the suspect ambushed her from behind.
The suspect was captured on video forcibly snatching the woman's purse off her left arm and throwing her to the ground. The victim suffered a fractured left shoulder and a laceration to the forehead.
The New York Police Department are still on the hunt for the suspect described as a black woman in her 20s, roughly 5'10" and weighing 190 to 200 lbs.
She was last seen wearing a baseball cap, black jeans, a black jacket and black boots.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. All calls are kept strictly confidential.
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