Hate crime charge for suspect in 101-year-old's mugging

Hate crime charge for suspect in 101-year-old's mugging



NEW YORK (AP) -- A man accused of beating and mugging a 101-year-old woman
and two others was arraigned Saturday on charges that included hate crimes,
authorities said.

Jack Rhodes, 44, was held without bail on charges of robbery, grand larceny,
burglary and assault.

Some of those charges were listed as hate crimes because two of the women
were at least 60 years old. Authorities said Rhodes targeted the women
because of their age, a violation of the New York State Hate Crimes Act of
2000. (Watch bystanders accuse him, as he's led into the police car )

Rhodes, whose last known address was in Queens, was arrested Friday on
unrelated drug charges.

Police questioned him after noticing he matched a photo of a person wanted
in the attacks, including one on Rose Morat, 101, whose March 4 beating was
caught on surveillance tape.

The grainy images show Morat, who was using a walker, trying to leave her
apartment building when a man attacked her and hit her in the face.

Morat suffered a fractured cheekbone and bruises. Her assailant got away
with $33 and her house keys. (Watch Morat and her walker knocked to ground )

The footage caused public outrage and the NYPD assigned dozens of detectives
to the case. The NYPD showed the surveillance video to every uniformed
officer in the city.

Rhodes is also accused of attacking 85-year-old Solange Elizee, 51-year-old
Angela Khan and burglarizing a building. All the attacks took place in
Queens.

He faces up to 25 years if convicted. A message left with his lawyer was not
immediately returned Saturday.

"I am so sorry for what happened," Rhodes said as he was led out of a police
station, the New York Post reported Saturday.



http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/28/elderly.mugging.ap/index.html


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