Woman, 71, heading to New Year’s Day church service fights back when teen girls attack, try to rob her in NYC subway station

A plucky aged girl on her method to a New Yr’s Day church service fought again when a violent group of adlescent ladies pummeled her throughout a botched theft inside a Brooklyn subway station, cops stated.

Linda Rosa, 71 – a retired MTA pc operation employee who lives in East New York – bought off a No. 3 practice at Hoyt Avenue simply after 6 p.m. and had simply handed via the turnstile when one of many 4 ladies tried to seize her purse, she advised The Submit Friday. 

“After which I [said to myself], ‘Oh, no, this isn’t going to occur as we speak,’” Rosa stated. 

Then, one other teen tried to seize Rosa’s bag too and stated: “Oh, you wish to combat?” 

Rosa continued holding tight to her purse, which didn’t discourage the younger would-be robbers. 

“The primary individual saved preventing,” Rosa stated. “She punched me in my face and I’ve my glasses on, and I’ve a lower on my nostril. When she punched me in my face, my glasses flew to the ground.”

“In the meantime the opposite younger woman was nonetheless attempting to distract me to get my pocketbook or go into my purse, to grab one thing out of my purse,” she recalled. 

The teenager ended up grabbing a pocket pouch that held Rosa’s ID and medical information, she stated. 

“I used to be nonetheless wrestling with the primary individual,” Rosa stated. “Then I used to be attempting to kick her in between her legs, however my leg wouldn’t stretch far sufficient, so I consider that’s once I fell. I fell, after which she stomped on me.” 

Rosa stated she sensed that the hostile teenagers weren’t accomplished but, so she took motion. 

“I bought an impression in me that she was going to stomp me once more, however she was going to goal in the direction of my head,” she stated. “So I bought up straight away, and with that, I grabbed her braids and twirled them round my proper hand, after which I pulled her down. She had her head down. Then the opposite younger woman stated, ‘Let her go.’ And I stated, ‘Oh, no, I’m not letting her go.’”

The senior yelled out for somebody to assist her – when she observed that the second teen had tossed her pocket pouch to the bottom and was coming towards her once more. 

“So out of nowhere, I grabbed her hair and twisted it round my left hand,” Rosa stated. “So I had them each facedown….[like] rams after they’re on the point of combat.”

The opposite ladies screamed, “Allow them to go! Allow them to go!” however Rosa held on and yelled, “I would like help! I would like help!” 

Moments later, Rosa did let go and began selecting up her belongings off the ground. 

The startled teenagers ran up the steps as Rosa advised them she was going to name the cops. 

Rosa – who retired from the MTA in 2016 after working for the company for about 42 years – then headed to the close by Brooklyn Tabernacle Church, the place the employees tended to her and known as 911. 

She was taken to The Brooklyn Hospital Heart for remedy. 

Rosa stated she is grateful she wasn’t harm worse. 

“Thank God they didn’t don’t have any weapons,” she stated. “I thank God I didn’t have a coronary heart assault and a stroke and die!”

Her attackers – seen passing via the turnstile in footage launched by the NYPD – had been nonetheless on the unfastened Friday, however Rosa stated she is already granting them some grace. 

“I forgive them. They have no idea what they do,” Rosa stated. “They don’t know what they did. It’s simply youngsters appearing silly.”

The assault got here throughout a violent stretch for the town’s transit system that noticed a lady burned to demise, a person shoved in entrance of a practice and a number of stabbings or slashings.

“It may occur to anyone,” Rosa stated of the violence. “Now we’re seeing seniors getting attacked. Wherever – it could possibly occur wherever, any station. You may be strolling down the road. You may be crossing the road.”