Video shows the man taking her purse, which police say had $300, credit cards, a cellphone and car keys.
NEW YORK -- The NYPD is looking for a man who pushed a parishioner down a flight of church steps and then robbed her on Sunday morning.Security video from Saint Demetrios Church in Jamaica , Queens shows a man following a 68-year-old woman at 84-35 152nd St. He surprises her and comes around as she reaches the top of the steps before he violently pushes her.The woman fell all the way to the ground.
She was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.The church's priest said the congregation is in shock.'She's a very humble, nice woman, has her faith, family. Hoping and praying she'll recover fully from this,' Father Konstantinos Kalogridis said. 'I visited her last night in the hospital. She was conscious, alert. I gave her a blessing, gave her Holy Communion. She did her cross. She was able to say, Thank you, I understand.
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