The NYC subway is totally safe. Just ask Kathy Hochul.
A bespectacled 71-year-old woman who was on her way to church on New Year’s Day was violently attacked by 4 teen girls on a New York City subway.
Linda Rosa told The New York Post that as soon as she went through the turnstile, one of the suspects grabbed her purse – but she wasn’t having any of it and fought back.
Rosa said her glasses went flying after the teens punched her in the face as they tried to mug her.
According to The New York Post, Rosa grabbed one of the teen’s braids and pulled her down. As another teen approached her, the victim grabbed onto her hair and pulled her down as well.
“I got an impression in me that she was going to stomp me again, but she was going to aim towards my head,” Linda Rosa told The Post. “So I got up right away, and with that, I grabbed her braids and twirled them around my right hand, and then I pulled her down. She had her head down. Then the other young lady said, ‘Let her go.’ And I said, ‘Oh, no, I’m not letting her go.’”
The shocked teens eventually ran off as the elderly victim called out for help.
Rosa was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The four suspects are still at large.
Video posted by NYPD CrimeStoppers shows the teen suspects attempting to rob the elderly woman:
The New York Post reported:
A plucky elderly woman on her way to a New Year’s Day church service fought back when a violent group of teen girls pummeled her during a botched robbery inside a Brooklyn subway station, cops said.
Linda Rosa, 71 – a retired MTA computer operation worker who lives in East New York – got off a No. 3 train at Hoyt Street just after 6 p.m. and had just passed through the turnstile when one of the four girls tried to grab her purse, she told The Post Friday.
“And then I [said to myself], ‘Oh, no, this is not going to happen today,’” Rosa said.
“The first person kept fighting,” Rosa said. “She punched me in my face and I have my glasses on, and I have a cut on my nose. When she punched me in my face, my glasses flew to the floor.”
“Meanwhile the other young lady was still trying to distract me to get my pocketbook or go into my purse, to snatch something out of my purse,” she recalled.
The teen ended up grabbing a pocket pouch that held Rosa’s ID and medical records, she said.
“I was still wrestling with the first person,” Rosa said. “Then I was trying to kick her in between her legs, but my leg wouldn’t stretch far enough, so I believe that’s when I fell. I fell, and then she stomped on me.”
Rosa said she sensed that the hostile teens weren’t done yet, so she took action.
