Getty Images/iStockphoto
Mushad Corley says he thinks the heartless pair of thugs targeted him because he is blind.
A blind Brooklyn man set upon by two thugs who stole his iPhone in a street mugging expressed contempt for his gutless attackers.
“I feel that the person, he didnt have any heart to approach me as a man,” 42-year-old Mushad Corley told the Daily News. “That outcome would’ve been different.”
The suspects pounced on Corley – a widowed father of a 4-year-old daughter — as he was talking on the phone with his home health aide as he returned to his apartment in the Howard Houses at about 7:45 p.m. Thursday.
Corley had just finished shopping at “Express Deli and Grocery” bodega next to his home on East New York Ave. in Brownsville when the creeps jumped him from behind.
“Before I got in the building, I was approached by two men,” the clearly shaken man said. “They grabbed me as soon as I came up the steps.”
RELATED: GREENPOINTERS TO FIGHT CRIME THEMSELVES
Corley wrestled with his attackers as they tried to snatch his black iPhone.
But the phone dropped from his hand.
“Then I tripped over my walking cane,” he said. “It happened so fast.”
Corley’s home health aide — who asked not to be identified — said she had no idea what was transpiring on the other end of the line.
“I thought he fell,” the woman said of the noise she heard through the phone.
RELATED: THUG WHO MUGGED WOMAN WITH EIGHT KIDS IN BROOKLYN BUSTED
“He stays here with his daughter. Anything could’ve happened. It’s terrible,” the woman said.
Corley believes the two men targeted him because he’s blind.
The attackers stayed mum as they roughed him up and tried to grab his phone. The area is not monitored by security cameras.
“They could’ve been watching me or following me, because they came from behind,” Corley said.
The supermarket clerk said he’s lived in the complex for a little over 10 years without incident. But he said he’s not scared by the assault and robbery.
“I’ve been around here too long to let one incident bother me,” Corley said. “But at the same time, I’ve got to think about my daughter.”
He holds out little hope his attackers will be nabbed.
“I hope they catch them,” he said. “But, its kind of impossible. People shouldn’t live in fear.”
Corley was uninjured in the incident. But the thieves did hurt part of him, he said.
“My pride.”
Yahoo Local News – New York Daily News
http://ift.tt/1dhpVq6
via Great Local News: New York http://ift.tt/1iZiLP1
No comments:
Post a Comment