Woman, 93, attacked returning to childhood home in Washington Heights
Eyewitness News
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS (WABC) -- A 93-year-old woman returned to her childhood home with her daughter, but instead of reliving fond memories, they were attacked and robbed.
"My mother was born September 20, 1919 in the house," Linda Reynolds said.
That's why Linda Reynolds took her 93-year mother Marjorie Ramondetta to the building on Amsterdam Avenue in Washington Heights on Tuesday afternoon. She wanted to see the apartment she grew in one last time. Instead of a trip down memory lane, they both got a violent trip down a marble flight of stairs. "This is so sore, all the way down to here," Marjorie Ramondetta said, pointing along the side of her body. Surveillance video, obtained exclusively by Eyewitness News, shows a suspect grabbing their handbags with the mother and daughter duo tumbling down the stairs face first.
"He grabbed my strap. He grabbed her strap and started yanking," Reynolds said.
"I held on to that stupid pocketbook and he just pulled it all the way down," Ramondetta said. "It's a crazy world. It surely isn't the same as it used to be."
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