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NEW YORK - For a moment, the man in the grainy video looks like a good Samaritan holding the door open for an elderly neighbor. Then he turns and delivers three sharp punches to the 101-year-old woman's head. : k8 A6 j- p$ o+ g% |6 a! J. \/ J# @' B1 I
"The next thing I knew, I had a big bang on the side of my face," said Rose Morat, who suffered a fractured cheekbone and lost her purse and $33 to the mugger.6 T. B! s6 I' O& h7 r
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The attack was captured by a surveillance camera in the lobby of her Queens apartment building March4. 8 d. X, b: j' ^; B. L* C k+ S+ L 2 E9 J$ k$ j) B9 H& D) E"I'm quite sure that if it had happened when I was younger, I would have been after him," she said. "I'm a very strong woman. I've been that way my whole life." 6 o& [2 H! K4 i! P0 G9 ]8 N8 T4 w ) W+ b, N# f+ ^! ^% I5 w4 u9 R* dPolice said the same man is believed to have later attacked a second elderly woman in the neighborhood. Investigators were searching for a suspect Saturday. ; h Z3 s9 K- N5 W7 i7 e4 K9 p; @( f. _
Morat said she was headed to church when she met the man in her lobby. He offered to help her make her way out, but she declined.: s( F8 H) E, H* x
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As Morat maneuvered her walker through the building's small vestibule, the man slowly put his bicycle against the wall, turned, and attacked her, the security video showed. / W6 R, F' s) G9 m 3 X( j1 T, ~+ r6 \; t* S* d; X; }2 C
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) b6 v0 F) f, l- N' {1 m4 M5 BNew York City police are searching for a mugger whose attack on an elderly woman was caught on tape.$ w/ ^5 t8 D) `6 l