(UPDATE IN EXTENDED STORY) 8:30AM EST: Police searched Thursday night for a robber whose violent attack on a Brooklyn woman was caught on tape.
Authorities released a surveillance video of the assault which happened early Monday morning on Brown Street in Marine Park.
Investigators say the 62-year-old woman had just parked her car when she was approached by a man who tried to snatch her purse.
When the woman struggled, the robber punched her in the face and ran off with the purse.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577 TIPS. If you see anything suspicious in the neighborhood, call Flatbush Shomrim’s 24hr emergency hotline at 718-338-9797.
UPDATE 12:30PM EST: YWN reporter Yehuda Cohen tells us that the NYPD is currently questioning 18-year-old Eric Ferguson (of Brooklyn) – whom they believe attacked the Catholic school teacher in Marine Park.
The teacher, Patricia McGowan, 62, was outside The Good Shepherd School when a young man viciously beat her and took off with her purse.
(Source: NY1)
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There’s an awful lot of crime in this neighborhood lately.
It was not in the right place it should have happend in a public school. Because the education system should teach not to commit crimes.
This creep is responsible for mugging a few heimishe people in the Flatbush area.
The detectives are only upset that people who get mugged refuse to cooperate with police officials when asked to go down and do some line ups.
It’s very easy to call 911 and beg police to come and save you but the least a mentch can do is help the police when they need YOUR help in closing out a case.
When a victim refuses to press charges or do a simple line up or look at some mug shots and the police then do not have a tight cases against a criminal- DO NOT be upset when the police have to let the criminal go and don’t be upset when the criminal migs you for a second time.
You see something? Say something! PRESS CHARGES ewhen your a victim of a crime.
NYPD has identified this creep as the same one that mugged the Orthodox Man on E 24th st & Quentin Rd on Thurs June 5th as reported on YW.As a person who lives on that block I feel that this is a Student at James Madison High School which is a block away.Now I know that on his way back & forth from school he cased out the block and committed two muggings of Jewish People & stole a pair of NJ plates from a car parked on that street.Any way we feel safer now. But the Jewish Man that was mugged at gunpoint feels that he doesnt need to go and identify the perp, which is disturbing