(AP)NEWTON There's an all-out search in Newton for the thug who beat up an elderly woman and left her for dead in the middle of the road.
He mugged her Wednesday night outside a market in Auburndale.
Surveillance video shows the suspect entering the Auburndale Market at about 8:30 p.m. Regulars say he'd never been seent here before. At the counter purchasing cigarettes is the 71-year-old woman who would become his victim minutes later.
“Do you think he saw her wallet and that she might have had some cash,” we asked Newton Police Lt. Bruce Apotheker.
“That's a possibility,” he replied. “Obviously, she was targeted.”
He was suspicious. On the video he is seen returning a drink to the case. Then he quickly walks out behind the victim, who had two wallets in her hand.
Outside the mugger waited with an eye toward her purse. And when she walked to her car and opened the door ...
“He asked her a question, turned around and proceeded to take her head and smash it into the door frame of the vehicle,” Apotheker said.
Store clerk Dawn Higgins found the victim on the ground.
" I was nervous because she was bleeding, like right behind her back," Higgins recalled.
Off camera, the victim told us the suspect yelled at her to let go of the purse. She said she got in a couple of kicks before being attacked.
“Oh my gosh, that's horrible,” one frequent market customer said Thursday. “This is a very safe area. I come here at all different times, different times of the night.”
And all for no more than $40. But with all the cameras following him, police hope they can find him.
“Apotheker said. “If a suspect can do that against an elderly person," Apotheker said, "I'm just windering what he would do to anyone else? He’s a danger out there.”
Police say the man got into a dark vehicle on the passenger side, so they're looking for a driver who may be an accomplice.
A stolen van out of Bellingham was found not far from the markeet. Police are investigating a possible connection.
The victim suffered a concussion. She is out of the hospital.
Hmmm, how are they going to bury this stat with the rest of them to keep up their "Safest City" BS title.
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