An 86-year-old Lake Worth woman who'd been visiting her husband at the nursing home on North A Street at the end of August was followed by two black men in a maroon car who smashed the window of her locked car as she sat it in in her driveway and ripped the necklace off her neck, grabbed her purse from the seat and a suitcase from the back seat and fled.
The horrible crime ocurred in the driveway of the woman's home on 12th Avenue North in Lake Worth on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 29. It was described in a crime report that was recently provided to the Lake Worth Sun by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
The woman told sheriff's deputies she'd noticed a suspicious maroon-colored vehicle while she was at the Avante center at 2501 North A Street in Lake Worth visiting her husband. She said that the men in the car appeared to be following her home. She pulled down a side street to let the car pass. It did, and so she continued to her house.
The woman said she'd gotten out of her car and was at her front door about to go inside when she saw the maroon car turn down her street. She went back to her car, got in and locked the doors. One of the men approached the car on foot from the rear on the passenger side, asking if she lives in the home. When she did not repsond, he smashed the rear passenger-side window, reached inside, grabbed the necklace that was around the 86-year-old woman's neck and tore if off, and then grabbed her purse and a suitcase from the back seat. The men then fled in the maroon car as one of the woman's neighbors bravely drove after him. The neighbor was able to track the vehicle to 10th Avenue North, and then onto I-95 northbound where he lost sight of it.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call police immediately. The phone number of the sheriff's substation in Lake Worth is (561) 586-1611.
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