A 97-year-old Harlem girl who was robbed and knocked to the bottom by a scooter-riding goon stated she needs the “lowlife” caught and locked up, she informed The Submit on Tuesday.
“He ought to go to jail for 20 years,” Thelma Mason fumed. “Then he’ll discover ways to be extra courteous in the direction of human beings. You simply don’t do that to nobody.
“I can’t stand no one getting near me now after I’m touring, particularly these motorbikes,” she added. “I’m at all times leaping. I don’t know if anyone’s going to assault me once more.”
Mason was strolling residence from the shop and was at West 127th Road and Eighth Avenue shortly earlier than 5:30 p.m. on Could 24 when she noticed the two-wheeled creep eying her.
“I used to be on the subsequent block on my means residence, minding my very own enterprise, and I noticed this man on a motorcycle, or no matter you name it, on the bus cease,” the nonagenarian stated.
“I checked out him and he checked out me. I’m simply minding my very own enterprise and he cranked that factor up and got here in the direction of me and simply snatched the necklace off my neck.
“I used to be strolling slowly, as ordinary,” she stated. “I didn’t have any thought he would assault me.”
The cowardly assault left Mason with a nasty scratch on her arm and a banged up her hip.
“You’ve acquired to be a lowlife to do one thing like that to an aged girl,” eyewitness Carlos Santiago stated Tuesday. “He was concentrating on her. He knew which means he was strolling.
“He got here proper as much as the bus cease, proper on the sidewalk and he was ready patiently, patiently,” stated Santiago, 47. “As soon as he noticed her he simply took off on the scooter and ran as much as her and simply grabbed the chain and saved going. She fell and he or she was harm.”
In the meantime the thief – and the 18-karat gold necklace with a Gemini twins pendant, a present from her daughter – stay unaccounted for, based on police.
Mason has lived in Harlem since 1951 and as soon as labored cleansing workplace buildings.
“It’s a unique world now,” she informed The Submit. “I used to get together at night time, come residence [at] two or three within the morning, no one ever bothered me. I wasn’t attacked or something. Now you’ll be able to’t even exit within the daytime earlier than they’re taking issues from you.”
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