Harlem robbers beat up woman and her 5-year-old grandson after stealing $15 from their home
'11.10.2024'
ForumDaily New York
On October 10, two robbers broke into the home of 56-year-old Yudelka Nunez of Harlem. They attacked her five-year-old grandson, fired guns and fled with $15 in cash and jewelry, according to New York Post.
The criminals beat Nunez with a pistol, stole family valuables, money and hit the helpless boy.
"They attacked my grandson right in front of me. I started screaming," Nunez said through tears in her ransacked apartment.
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"They threw him on the floor and made him lie face down under the bed," she said. "That's when I ran at them, screaming, 'Please don't kill him! I don't want you to kill anyone, but if you do, kill me instead!'"
The child thought that his mother had arrived
Two robbers wearing ski masks, showed up at an apartment building near 118th Street at 1:20 a.m. and rang the doorbell.
A five-year-old boy who was at home with Nunez opened the door thinking his mother had returned home.
Instead, the boy and his grandmother found themselves face to face with armed men. They asked, "Where is the safe?"
Nunez said she didn't know her daughter wasn't home and assumed it was her boyfriend knocking on the door.
"I was sure it was him," Nunez admitted.
Criminals They seized a safe containing $4500 in cash and $10 in jewelry, as well as cell phones and three passports.
The suspects, believed to be Hispanic men in their 20s and 30s, both dressed in black, fled.
Both the boy and his grandmother were hospitalized for examination.
The stolen phones and passports were recovered and found by a delivery courier about a block away from the scene.
Meanwhile, Nunez said she was angry with her daughter.
"She is finished," she said. "I don't know where I will go, but I cannot stay here, lest I expose my grandson to even greater danger."