91-Year-Old Woman Fights Off Attacker in Florida

10 months 5 days 21 hours ago Friday, November 09 2018 Nov 9, 2018 Friday, November 09, 2018 12:19:00 PM CST November 09, 2018 in News
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FLORIDA - 91-year-old Mary Kennedy is battered, bruised but not broken. She's now recovering after being attacked and robbed in a Walmart parking lot in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Her left arm is completely black and blue, and she's fighting through the pain after fracturing her pelvis and tailbone.

"He body-slammed me down to the concrete and that was it, that was all I knew, I couldn't get up," Kennedy said.

"I lunged at him and tried to get my pocketbook back and he pulled it through my fingers," she said.

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