ARREST - Elderly Female Mugged in Elevator

Cops Nab Suspect in Attack on Senior

The NYPD announced the arrest of a suspect in the July mugging of an elderly woman inside an elevator in an apartment building. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

April 14, 2024

BRONX - Cops arrested a suspect in the mugging of an elderly woman inside an elevator in a Bronx building.

Police arrested 23-year-old David Jenkins of Bruckner Boulevard. He was charged with robbery.

At around 8:30 am on July 10, a 77-year-old woman was riding an elevator inside an apartment building at 2460 Bronxwood Avenue. As the woman was trying to exit the elevator, a man walked up to her.

Without warning the man pushed the elderly woman to the ground. He then yanked the woman’s wallet out of her hands and walked off.

Police released surveillance video of the suspect walking into a Bronx building with a Citi bike rented bicycle. Cops said this is the man who attacked an elderly woman in another nearby building.

Investigators were able to obtain video of the suspect from another building’s surveillance cameras. The suspect was captured on camera entering 920 Mace Avenue on a Citi Bike.