Community group steps up to pay 76-year-old crime victim’s rent after violent attack
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A Mother’s Love Initiative wrote a check to cover the next four months of rent for a 76-year-old crime victim brutally attacked earlier this month and had her rent money stolen.
According to Minneapolis Director of Police Information John Elder, on Jan. 2 at about 12:14 p.m., the Minneapolis Police Department responded to a report of a woman in her mid-70s shot and beaten on the 1700 block of East 22nd Street in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.
“When we are talking about abuse to women in our community, or elders in our community, if not a mother’s love then who?,” said Lisa Clemons, A Mother’s Love director about their planned donation. “It’s horrific. It was hard to even read about that and hear about that, but our elders are under attack.”
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Officers arrived and located an elderly woman who had been shot and pistol-whipped so severely that a metal piece of the gun broke off and was found at the scene.
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The lone suspect fled the scene with the victim’s purse containing her rent money, according to investigators.
The Hennepin County Attorney Office filed charges late last week in the case.