Two Teens Tried To Steal Elderly Woman’s Purse In Apartment Building Near Church & Ocean Avenues: NYPD

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Police said two teenage girls tried to steal an 80-year-old woman’s purse in a building near Ocean and Church Avenues Friday afternoon, and the NYPD is asking the public to help them identify the perpetrators captured by surveillance footage.

According to the NYPD, the two suspects followed the elderly woman into a building in the vicinity of Ocean and Church Avenues around 3:10pm on Friday, January 16. Once the two teenagers were inside, they continued to follow the woman into an elevator, where they demanded the victim’s purse, police said.

The woman refused, after which the teens “attempted to forcibly remove the victim’s purse from around her neck, causing her to fall to the ground,” police said. The suspects then fled, empty handed, onto the building’s fifth floor.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s crime stoppers hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the crime stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.