Surveillance video shows crooks on scooter drag and rob 12-year-old girl in Queens.
A 12-year-old girl who was dragged down a Queens sidewalk by a mugger on a scooter who grabbed her chain is now scared to leave her home.
“They’re the worst human beings alive,” the child said of her attackers. “I’m scared to go out in the streets.”
The duo are being sought for seven recent chain-snatching robberies, four of them in one day.
The 12-year-old girl who was dragged down a Queens sidewalk by a mugger on a scooter. (Harry Parker /for New York Daily News)
The Queens girl, the first victim in the pattern, was walking home from school when she noticed the men following her.
“I didn’t know what to do or how to react,” said the child, whose name the Daily News is withholding due to her young age. “They were following me from 82nd (Street). Like for five minutes.”
The muggers rode up to her as she was walking near Layton St. near Britton St. in Elmhurst around 4:35 p.m. on Oct. 24, cops said.
The man riding on the back of the scooter grabbed her cherished cross necklace given to her by her mother as they rode by, police and the girl said.
She fell to the sidewalk as the scooter continued down the sidewalk and the crook held on to her chain, dragging her down the block.
The scooter eventually toppled over as the mugger and victim struggled. The scooter passenger wrenched the necklace from her neck, breaking the chain, video shows. The scooter operator then rode off with the passenger running alongside him.
Surveillance video shows crooks on scooter drag and rob 12-year-old girl in Queens. (NYPD)
“It happened fast,” the victim said of the terrifying mugging. “I didn’t feel when I was getting dragged. I only cared about the necklace.”
“I just think they’re disrespectful because, like, I’ve never harmed someone in the way they did to me so it’s, like, I don’t think I deserved that,” she said.
The girl’s older sister said since the ordeal, the victim has begun to walk with friends.
“She couldn’t talk about it for a few days. They pulled her by the chain,” said the sibling. “It’s just anyone on the street nowadays. It’s scary.”
The same duo struck again two days later, punching a 37-year-old woman in the face at 34th Ave. Ave. and 103rd St. around at 2:20 p.m., cops said. They tried unsuccessfully to steal her chain.
But just 10 minutes later, they snatched two chains from a 43-year-old woman a mile-and-a-half away, at 31st Ave. and 76th St. in Jackson Heights.
At 7 p.m. the same day, they victimized a 52-year-old man in Elmhurst, snatching his chain as he walked on 75th St. near Woodside Ave., police said.
Surveillance video shows crooks on scooter drag and rob 12-year-old girl in Queens. (NYPD)
The attackers ended their spree that day a half-mile north, targeting a 35-year-old woman on 73rd St. near 35th Ave. in Jackson Heights, police said. They stole her chain and drove off at 8:50 p.m.
The next day, at 3 p.m., they robbed a 70-year-old woman a few blocks away, snatching her chain on 77th St. near 35th Ave., police said.
The last victim, a 48-year-old woman, was robbed of her necklace at 12:45 p.m. Nov. 7 at Penrod St. and Otis Ave. in Corona.
None of the victims needed medical attention.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
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