The police are looking for a man who was captured on video knocking down an 85-year-old woman in the elevator of her West Village apartment building and stealing her bag. The man is at least six feet tall and weighs at least 200 pounds, the police said.
The mugging happened at 305 West 13th Street on Saturday around 10:50 p.m. In surveillance video released by the police, the man, who towers over the woman, enters the lobby just behind her, waving at her as he walks past her.
He then settles into a chair in the lobby, gets up and speaks to the woman, and eventually follows her to the elevator.
N.Y.P.D. Surveillance still showing an 85-year-old woman struggling with a mugger in a West Village elevator.She tries to leave the elevator as he advances on her, but he grabs her and shoves her to the floor of the car, then straightens up, holding her handbag, which he stuffs in his sweatshirt or coat as the woman lies on the floor.
The woman was not injured, and the mugger made off with an undetermined amount of money, the police said. The man is described as black, about 35, between 6 feet tall and 6-foot-3, and weighing 200 to 230 pounds. Anyone with information about him is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on line or by texting tips to 274637 and entering TIP577.
