The woman who allegedly snatched cash from a boy's hand and slapped his mother at a Bronx mall is still roaming the area, and locals are furious that police haven't handcuffed her yet. .
“She's still walking around here. I last saw her like two days ago,” a Richards Fruit and Vegetables employee told the Post on Sunday.
“She ran away [after the attack]But I live nearby and I saw her walking. [again] before coming to work,” she added.
On September 24, the suspect was captured on camera wearing a pink wig as he stuck his head in the door of a small market on Jerome Avenue and spoke to a 7-year-old boy who had several dollars in cash in his hand. It was done.
She snatched the money and tried to leave, but rammed the boy's 38-year-old mother while she was pushing another young child in a stroller. The suspect then punched the shocked mother in the face and fled.
Eric Vidals, co-owner of Richard's Fruit and Vegetables, also told the Post that he was aware the suspect was in the neighborhood and that despite the theft and assault, she was still on the prowl. spoke.
He saw her without a wig just Saturday and panicked to call the police, but they were too late.
“She was right there. She walked up and down in front of my store for probably five minutes,” Vidalus said.
“I called 911, and several of us called. I told them we caught a woman who stole money from a little kid here. “What color are you? What kind of clothes are you wearing? What color is your hair? They asked me trivial things that I could just ignore and send to the police,” he said.
“The police arrived 15 or 20 minutes later. The first thing they asked was where she was. I told them she had left.”
Vidals said all he could do was point officers in the direction the suspect was last seen walking. They told him, “We were going over there to see if we could see her.''
“That was it. They never came back. If they had shown up right away, they would have gotten her.”
The NYPD told the Post that as of Sunday, wanted posters with the suspect's face were posted in the neighborhood.
Additional reporting by Juan Gonzalez.
