Police are searching for a woman who robbed and shoved an 81-year-old woman to the ground at a downtown Manhattan subway station. On January 4 at 10:40 p.m., Madeline Klima was swiping her Metrocard at a turnstile at the Fulton Street station when the suspect approached her from behind. Klima, who works as an office cleaner, broke her shoulder and suffered a head laceration; she told the Post, “I knew my bag was gone and I yelled, ‘I was robbed!’ ‘I was robbed!’
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Police released video of the mugging. The Post describes, “Video shows the elderly woman, clad in an ankle-length black coat, bright red hat and support hose, tightly clutching an oversized bag in her left arm. The powerful mugger, described by cops as a black woman, about 5-feet-11 and 190 to 200 pounds, tails the elderly woman into station and cruelly strikes as the unsuspecting senior citizen is about to pay her fare. Grabbing the purse with both of her arms, the thug flips the stunned victim backward and throws her to the ground. She then flees out of the station the way she came.”
Klima, who says she doesn’t want to retire, said of her attacker, “She got my paychecks, $800. I guess I’ll have to survive without it,” but “You can’t be suspicious of everybody, and you can’t judge people by their clothes.” She does want her assailant caught: “She’s gotta suffer somehow, someway or another. If she does this to someone else, she’s gotta live with it.”
Source:Gothamist By Jen Chung
