Thief swipes elderly Florida man’s car hours after he’s stabbed in separate attack

Crime

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 11:57 AM

wtsp Clark said he continued to scream during the vicious attack until the suspects were forced to run away empty-handed.

An elderly man who was stabbed and beaten during a robbery attempt in a Florida shopping center woke up the next day as the victim of another crime after he noticed his car had been stolen.

The 83-year-old man, Charles Clark, was nursing a list of injuries that included a broken jaw and stab wounds to his arm when he told police his Ford was boosted from the front of his Pinellas Park home on Wednesday morning.

Cops found the car as short time later, but no arrests were made.

wtsp Charles Clark, 83, was the victim of two major crimes within a day. Just hours after he was viciously attacked in a robbery attempt at a Florida shopping center, his car was stolen from outside his home.

Investigators were still trying to determine if the stolen car was connected to the three suspects who attacked Clark at the nearby Park Plaza on Tuesday morning.

Clark said he tried to fight back when one of the men suddenly attacked.

wtsp The 83-year-old Clark suffered several injuries – including a broken jaw – after he was attacked at a Florida shopping center. Hours later, his car was stolen from outside his home.

“He grabbed me and got a knife,” Clark told WTSP-TV. “I started hitting him.”

The one-time boxer said he kept swinging at the suspect even as he felt the blade plunge into his arm.

wtsp Clark, 83, continued to punch the suspect who stabbed the elderly man three times in the arm during the attack.

“I hit him as hard as I could, couple of times,” he told WTVT-TV. “I think I knocked him down even.”

“It was horrible,” his neighbor, Mark Lindsey — who witnessed the attack from the apartment complex — told the news station.

“Seeing all the blood over him, all over the ground, and just hearing the man scream…nothing I could do from the third floor.”

Lindsey said he kept yelling until the bandits were forced to retreat empty-handed.

“I just screamed like hell and hollered and hollered and hollered,” he said.

Police were still trying to identify the suspects on Wednesday.

jkemp@nydailynews.com

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