A would-be robber picked the wrong woman to mess with. The 94-year-old fought off her attacker after he tried to steal her purse at a Germantown Pharmacy.
"As I was sitting, waiting, there was a man dressed as a woman," Jennie Pringle explained.She works out a few times a week at the gym. And, her muscle memory helped her put up a brave battle when the purse snatcher grabbed her purse and her with it while seated at the pharmacy in line to get a flu shot, at the Rite Aid on West Cheltenham Avenue on October 18th.Pringle described the scene, "I was sitting with my bag on my lap, straps in my arm. He came over and grabbed it.
I walked up to him and said, ‘Give me my bag.’ He was taking the money out, by that time. My identification, my credit cards all fell on the floor. By that time, the police were there. Then he tried to run but there were four or more policemen outside."Police quickly captured 20-year-old Janhyi Boyd. District Attorney Larry Krasner announced Boyd is charged with robbery.Pringle continued to explain the events after police took Boyd into custody, "He said we got him.
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