A violent quartet of female teenagers beat and attempted to rob a 71-year-old woman on her way to church on New Year's Day in a Brooklyn subway, but the outnumbered victim intended to lie down for the younger crowd. There wasn't.
Linda Rosa, a former Metropolitan Transportation Authority computer operator who lives in East New York, got off the train on Platform 3 at Hoyt Street just after 6 p.m. and was about to pass through the turnstile when four women spotted her. One of them tried to grab her purse. , she He spoke in detail to the New York Post..
“I grabbed her braid and put it in my right hand and then pulled her down.”
Rosa told the newspaper that her inner reaction was, “Oh no, that's not going to happen today.”
Another woman also tried to grab Rosa's purse and actually asked her, “Oh, you want to fight?”
However, Rosa would not part with her property.
“The first one kept fighting,” Rosa recalled in an interview with the Post on Friday. “She punched me in the face, and I wear glasses, and I have a cut on my nose. When she punched me in the face, my glasses flew to the floor. Ta.”
She continued: “Meanwhile, the other young woman continued to distract me, trying to take my notebook, reaching into my wallet and snatching something from my wallet.'' That's what I was trying to do,” he continued.
Rosa told the newspaper that one of her attackers grabbed her pocket pouch containing her ID and medical records, after which she became more defensive.
“I was still struggling with the first one,” Rosa told the newspaper. “Then I tried to kick her between the legs and my leg didn't extend far enough, so I think that's when I fell… and she stomped on me.”
There's a lot of fighting inside her
One might think that she would have simply hid and hoped that the attack would end quickly, but in fact the opposite was true.
“I had this impression that she was going to step on me again, but she was going for my head,” Rosa explained to the Post. “So I quickly stood up, grabbed her braid, put it in my right hand, and pulled her down. She had her head down. Then the other young woman said, 'Let me go.' Said. So I said, 'Oh, no, I'm not going to let her go.' ”
“Thank God I didn’t have a heart attack or stroke and die!”
Rosa screamed for help and the boy, who had grabbed her pocket pouch, dropped it and came towards her, the paper said.
Do you think the victim shouted “Uncle” at that time? It's not your life.
Rosa told the newspaper that she made the same move with her free hand on the second female: “I grabbed her hair and wrapped it around my left hand.Then I turned them both face down.'' I woke up… [like] They ram into each other as they prepare for battle. ”
Other women repeatedly shouted for Rosa to release her comrades, the newspaper said. Let them go! But Rosa refused and asked for help again, according to the newspaper. “I need help!” I need help! ”
The newspaper said she eventually let go of her two attackers and began picking up her belongings from the floor. The defeated crew members then ran up the subway stairs when Rosa told them she was going to call the police, the Post reported.
Paper details:
Rosa, who retired from the MTA in 2016 after nearly 42 years with the agency, then headed to the nearby Brooklyn Tabernacle Church, where staff tended to her and called 911.
She was taken to Brooklyn Hospital Center for treatment.
Rosa said she was thankful she wasn't injured more seriously.
“Thank God they were unarmed,” she told the Post. “Thank God I didn’t have a heart attack or stroke and die!”
you can watch the video here It shows a suspect passing through a turnstile at a subway station.
“I forgive them.”
The newspaper reported that Rosa's attackers were still at large Friday, but the target of the botched robbery told the Post, “I forgive them.” they don't know what they're doing. They don't know what they did. It's just teenagers doing stupid things. ”
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