A crew of rock-throwing teenagers pummeled an aged do-gooder who agreed to present them a greenback Monday morning – earlier than stealing $200 from the New Yorker a couple of block from his dwelling, cops stated.
Rafael Diaz, 73, was strolling dwelling round 8:50 a.m. at East twelfth Road close to Avenue A when as many as six children approached him – one a teen lady who feigned innocence as she requested him for a buck, in accordance with police and the sufferer.
“The lady [was] candy, good, you understand, costume[ed] good, regular,” Diaz stated. “[She said], ‘Oh, are you able to please give me $1?’ So I say OK, right here’s a greenback. Then they are saying, ‘Oh, he’s obtained cash, let’s bounce him!’”
The ruthless crew adopted Diaz for half a block – chucking rocks and sticks at him – earlier than the sufferer determined to duck into a close-by restaurant for canopy and pleaded with the folks inside to name 911, he stated.
However “no one did something” – and the crew adopted him, with somebody pushing him to the bottom and one male suspect assailing him with three punches, in accordance with cops and the sufferer.
In some unspecified time in the future throughout the scuffle, one of many muggers grabbed Diaz’s pockets from his pocket, he stated.
“I stated, my pockets, my pockets!” Diaz stated. “So I attempted to run away however everybody [was] too quick. So that they threw it on the street.”
“They run like rabbits!” he stated of the still-at-large crew who gave the impression to be solely 15 or 16 years outdated.
He quickly realized that $200 was lacking from the pockets, in addition to his debit card and advantages card, he stated.
The senior was taken to Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital, the place he was handled and launched.
Diaz, who has lived within the neighborhood for 12 years in addition to in different areas of the Large Apple – together with the Bronx – since he was 15, stated nothing like this has ever occurred to him earlier than.
However the assault isn’t stopping him from strolling across the metropolis he calls dwelling.
“No, it’s similar to, you understand, you get mad, you understand, it’s a must to recover from it,” he stated. “You realize, it’s not simple. 5, six guys leaping you, you understand, in opposition to you. You’re the one one.”
“I [was] actually pissed off and actually mad,” he added. “I’m [in] my girlfriend’s home. She went to the hospital to get me to calm down. She stated, Rafael, keep right here. Don’t exit – keep [here] since you’re getting mad. You realize, you need to discover these guys.”
No arrests had been instantly made within the broad-daylight stick-up.
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