A crafty gunman in a ski masks robbed a 99-year-old Manhattan landlord of at the very least $20,000 in a broad-daylight heist this week – after apparently maintaining a pointy eye on the senior’s comings and goings, police stated.
The slick legal referred to as the aged constructing proprietor round 10 a.m. Monday and claimed he had a package deal that wanted to be delivered to an house throughout the residence on West 187th Avenue close to Audubon Avenue in Washington Heights, in accordance with NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
The caller requested that the senior meet him on the facet of the constructing – a crimson flag as a result of “you’d solely know that was a facet entrance for those who’re conversant in that constructing,” Kenny stated.
When the sufferer went to open the gate, the intruder grabbed it and pushed his well past, the chief stated.
“[The victim] realizes that this isn’t proper,” Kenny stated. “The 99-year-old begins to battle with the perpetrator. Throughout this battle over the door, his hand will get crushed between the door and the steel body, hurts his hand, and he finally ends up having to get stitches.”
The suspect then made his approach into the basement of the five-floor, 30-unit constructing, the place he allegedly pressed a gun into the sufferer’s again and demanded entry to the workplace, the police official stated.
“It’s important to be conversant in that constructing, conversant in this gentleman’s day by day routine to know that his workplace was within the basement,” Kenny stated.
He then pressured his approach into the workplace, the place he snatched up at the very least $20,000 in hire that was saved in a cupboard, the police official stated.
The cash additionally included funds from the tenants of two buildings throughout the road, which the senior additionally owned, Kenny stated.
“He’s accountable for gathering the hire, and somebody knew that he stored the hire in that cupboard,” he stated. “It was plain apparent that the perpetrator knew his approach round that constructing. He knew that the male had the cash.”
The suspect, who spoke solely Spanish, fled the scene with the hefty wad of money and had not but been caught by Thursday.
He was final seen carrying a black ski masks, black gloves, grey sweatshirt, black sweatpants and white sneakers, cops stated as they launched footage of him strolling slowly on the sidewalk.
The sufferer, in the meantime, was taken to New York-Presbyterian/Columbia College Irving Medical Middle with two damaged fingers and a lower on his hand, police stated.
Anybody with info on the brazen robber’s whereabouts is requested to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
The general public may also submit their ideas by logging onto the Crime Stoppers web site, or on X @NYPDTips.
