An elderly North Shore woman is badly shaken after being
robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight.
The 77-year-old was walking on Beach Road, Browns Bay,
yesterday morning when a man approached her and demanded her
handbag.
When she refused, the man pointed what appeared to be a gun
covered in black cloth at her chest, said Detective Darren
Attwood of the North Shore CIB.
"The offender ripped the victim's bag from her shoulder. He
then ran back across Beach Road and got into the passenger's
side of a waiting vehicle. The vehicle drove north in the
direction of Torbay.''
The woman is badly shaken but otherwise unharmed, and is
receiving assistance from Victim Support.
Police have a description of the offender, his driver
associate, and the waiting vehicle.
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