Suspect charged in muggings of elderly women - including 101-year-old victim
New York City’s most notorious mugging
suspect has been captured.
Rose Morat, 101 years young
The city’s most notorious mugging suspect - a man whose image was captured on a security video as he assaulted a 101-year-old grandmother leaving her Queens home for church - was charged late Friday night in that attack as well as two others, police said.
Jack Rhodes, 44, was charged with robbery as a hate crime, as well as burglary, second-degree assault and grand larceny in the March 4 attacks on Rose Morat of Jamaica Estates and Solange Elizee, 85, of Jamaica.
The attack on Morat made headlines worldwide when police released video footage from a security camera that shows her being pummeled by a man inside her building. Just a half-hour later, the same man was believed to have struck again, beating Elizee inside her Jamaica apartment, punching her in the face, police said.
“If it’s the right man, it’s wonderful,” Morat said at her home.
I prefer to show a photo of a courageous woman - than one of the thug who attacked her.
Posted: Sun - April 29, 2007 at 08:42 AM