An elderly woman was brutally beaten and left unconscious on a Los Angeles street — where she was then robbed by a heartless passerby, sickening video shows.
Surveillance footage, captured by an MTA bus and released by the LAPD, shows the 86-year-old woman completely knocked out on a sidewalk in Adams-Normandie as people stand idly nearby.
A man in a beanie and a New York Yankees jacket then steps off the bus and steps over the woman.
Instead of helping her, the cold-blooded commuter rummages through her purse, the video shows.
The witnesses standing nearby and a straphanger still on the bus can be seen cautiously trying to stop the man but he brushes them off and takes off with her wallet.
A man in a beanie and a New York Yankees jacket then steps off the bus and steps over the woman. Los Angeles Police Department
Instead of helping her, the cold-blooded commuter rummages through her purse, the video shows. Los Angeles Police Department
The witnesses standing nearby and a straphanger still on the bus can be seen cautiously trying to stop the man but he brushes them off and takes off with her wallet. Los Angeles Police DepartmentA suspect was later taken into custody for the Aug. 8 beating and charged with felony battery, however, the thief remains in the wind.
The woman, who was “severely injured,” was taken by EMS to a local hospital in critical condition, cops said.
Police described the thief as a man between 40 and 50 with a mustache or goatee. LAPDWhen the woman came to, she told police she had no recollection of being attacked or robbed.
Police described the thief as a man between 40 and 50 with a mustache or goatee.
