The 76-year-old woman was attacked while she was entering her apartment building on Sunday around 12:30a.m.
The thieves took her purse, which contained $50, a wallet, a debit card, and insurance cards.Her son says she is a very active woman but that she might not ever be able to live the life she desires after needing a hip replacement.
"Who does something like that?" said the son, Sean, who didn't want his last name used."She's very independent, and she wants to be able to do her own thing. And she was out dancing with her friends that night because that's on her favorite things to do.""There's a chance that she needs a walker for the rest of her life," Sean said."For somebody like her, that's terrible."Benny Santiago is a neighbor and friend who called 911.
"She seen them in front of Walgreens, and she was walking home through the lot, I guess, and they followed her," he said."Doesn't make sense. I'm born and raised in New York. It just doesn't make sense."
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