Mugger stole phone from dying jogger, 64, as she tried to call for help after heart attack
The woman was mugged after collapsing from a heart attack as she ran close to the Anheuser Busch brewery in St Louis, Missouri, on Sunday
A mugger stole a dying 64 year-old jogger’s phone as she tried to call for help. The unidentified woman was robbed after having a heart attack and falling while running near the Anheuser-Busch Brewery St Louis, Missouri, on Sunday afternoon.
Harrowing surveillance footage showed her roll onto her back, then try to sit up to use her phone. She managed to stand up – only to fall headfirst onto the ground again. Moments later, a red Dodge Caravan van pulled up beside the woman and a man got out.
St Louis Police Department said its driver got out and picked up the woman’s phone. He then got back into the van, and drove off – leaving her alone to die.
The woman was later found and rushed to hospital, where she was officially pronounced dead. News of the mugging and woman’s death has sparked outrage in St Louis, with police investigating the distressing crime.
They have yet to make any arrests. It came a month after another mugger was filmed rifling through the wallet of an unconscious man on a bus in Richmond, Virginia, with that victim also later pronounced dead.
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