When crime hits home – Daily News

To know my Aunt Maggie is to adore her.

She is a 92-year-old retired nurse who lives in Cleveland. After I graduated from regulation faculty, I moved to Cleveland to work for a regulation agency. Throughout my first weeks on the town, I lived with my Aunt Maggie and Uncle Thurman. It was virtually embarrassing the way in which my aunt fussed over me. She cherished being a nurse and labored within the maternity ward.

“There’s nothing higher than watching the miracle of beginning,” she advised me.

I lived in Cleveland for 17 years earlier than shifting again to Los Angeles. However I remained shut with my aunt and uncle. A number of years in the past, she misplaced her husband. They have been married practically 60 years.

A religious Christian, Aunt Maggie, a gifted singer with a four-octave vary, nonetheless sings within the choir in the identical church she joined practically 60 years in the past. She drives herself to the church each week and infrequently misses a Sunday.

Correction, she used to drive herself. Final June, Aunt Maggie bought out of her automobile within the church car parking zone and was knocked down by an armed thug. He grabbed her purse and her Bible by which she jotted down notes for 40 years.

An investigating detective advised me the legal is 40 years outdated. And he has been busy. To say he’s a profession legal is to insult profession criminals. My aunt was considered one of 5 of his victims in only one month. He makes a speciality of robbing ladies as they stroll from their vehicles to church.

That is from Cleveland.com: “The theft spree began on June 7. … (LaDon) Moore went as much as a person on a ladder engaged on a house on Rexford Avenue. When the person got here down off the ladder, Moore pulled a pistol on him and demanded every thing he had. The person threw himself to the bottom and tossed his cellphone and his pockets to Moore, who scooped up the objects and took off. Moore then used the cellphone to name the person’s spouse. He demanded she give him both the person’s Social Safety quantity or his checking account info. If she didn’t, he would ‘blow his head off’ … The girl thought it was prank and hung up. She then known as her husband again, and Moore answered. He repeated the risk, and the lady gave up the knowledge after which known as police.

“Six days later, Moore held up a Greenback Retailer at gunpoint. (After assaulting my aunt), the subsequent day, Moore went as much as a girl in a distinct church car parking zone and pulled a gun on her. When she stated she didn’t have any cash on her, he made her stroll to a close-by fuel station and take cash out of an ATM to present to him …

“Moore additionally robbed a girl in a fuel station car parking zone … The following day … tried to rob a 63-year-old lady exterior one other church. The girl bumped into the church and known as for assist, and Moore ran away.”

Sadly for Moore, the assault on Aunt Maggie was captured on the church’s surveillance cameras. He was arrested. His legal document contains eight years in jail and later one other 5 years for aggravated theft and felonious assault.