N.Y.P.D. Freddie Keitt, 33, has been charged with this mugging of an 85-year-old woman in an elevator. A security video caught the attack.A 33-year-old homeless man has been arrested and accused of mugging an 85-year-old retired actress in the elevator of her West Village building and robbing three other women, the police said Wednesday.
Freddie Keitt, the police said, is the man who was filmed on security video shoving the elderly woman, Yvonne Sherwell-Demakopoulos, to the floor of the elevator and grabbing her handbag on Saturday night.
Mr. Keitt is also being charged with three other elevator robberies - of a 58-year-old woman in Far Rockaway, Queens, on Dec. 4; a 28-year-old woman in the East Village on Dec. 8; and a 22-year-old woman in Gramercy Park on Dec. 9.
Ms. Sherwell-Demakopoulos was not injured in the attack in her building on West 13th Street, but said that the thief, who towered over her and weighed at least 200 pounds, also stole her wedding band.
