78-Year-Old Long Island Woman Stops Serial Robber

2009_03_lilady.jpg A man's third robbery in weeks became his last for (hopefully) a long time after a senior citizen helped get him arrested. Susan Jannace, 49, tells Newsday that she was speaking to her mother, Doris Henion, 78, in her car parked at the Huntington Square Mall when, "All of a sudden someone opens my driver's door and this man looks in and says, 'Give me your money' and points a gun at m. I grabbed the gun, trying to get it out of his hand," but ultimately handed over purse. That's when her mother stepped in: Newsday reports, "Henion followed the gunman on foot across Jericho Turnpike yelling to anyone in earshot, 'He stole my purse! He stole my purse!'" A Suffolk County cop later arrested Christopher Norowski, who is wanted for another robbery at the mall as well as one at the Kings Park train station.

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I grabbed the gun, trying to get it out of his hand," but ultimately handed over purse. That's her mother stepped in:

Come on.

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