Girl, 13, busted for mugging elderly Bronx woman, leaving her with broken hip: ‘True psychopath’
A 13-year-old girl has been arrested for attacking a 76-year-old woman in a harrowing caught-on-camera Bronx mugging that left her elderly victim with a broken hip, police said Wednesday.
The suspect made it easy for police, calling 911 to report she was the victim in an unrelated robbery, a police source said.
“Detectives from the squad identified her as the person from the video and she immediately asked for a lawyer,” the source said.
The victim’s son, who asked he be identified only as Sean, heard about the arrest from police and called the underage suspect a “true psychopath,” alluding to other incidents in which she was involved.
The teen, wearing pink leggings, can be seen in the early Sunday incident swinging the senior around until she fell onto the lobby floor of her Pelham Bay apartment building, police said.
The suspect’s name was not released because of her age. Police have charged her as a juvenile with robbery and assault and took her to Bronx Family Court, police said.
The victim was returning to her apartment building on Roberts Ave. near Hobart Ave. from a night of dancing at Jimmy Ryan’s Bronx Grill and Bar when the suspect and two accomplices jumped her at 12:30 a.m., cops said.
The crooks approached from behind and pulled the victim’s hair, then pushed their way in as the woman tried to close the door on them, cops said.
That’s when the 13-year-old suspect allegedly grabbed the woman by her arm and swung her around until she fell to the lobby floor. The teen then ran off with the victim’s purse, which had $50 and a debit card inside, cops said.
The victim is recuperating at Jacobi Medical Center, according to her son.
“She had the surgery on Sunday,” he said. “It seems to have gone well.”
“She’s in good enough shape that they want to be more aggressive with physical therapy,” he added.
The teen’s two accomplices have not been caught.
Earlier this week Sean derided his mother’s attackers as “little punks” and predicted they’d soon get caught.
“They’re idiots,” the son said. “They don’t realize there’s cameras everywhere, especially in an apartment building. They deserve to get caught and punished.”
Anyone with information about the teen’s two accomplices is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
