Video: Thugs Steal Bible During Violent Mugging In Bronx Building Lobby

Police are asking the public for help in finding three young men caught on surveillance video assaulting a 64-year-old man on August 8th in the lobby of a building in Fordham Heights in the Bronx. Their victim reportedly held the door open for his assailants, who brutally assaulted him and relieved him of his money, his cell phone, and, mysteriously, his Bible.

NYPD sources tell City Room they suspect the perps are responsible for a series of assaults, all of them on Creston Avenue at East 181st Street and all occurring between the hours of 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. The suspects, described as black males between the ages of 16-20, allegedly mugged a 33-year-old man on July 23rd, and struck again on August 3rd, mugging a 26-year-old man. Of course, now that holy word of God has entered their lives, they're probably already en route to turn themselves over to the police.

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By John Del Signore in News on August 16, 2011 5:50 PM

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therealdeal80

they should not fear , the average bronx jury will find them NOT GUILTY and recommend a 28 million dollar award for wrongful arrest, have no fear......and then we can party and shit

birdtird

wait til these guys get to the part in the Bible about not mugging old people

whitecastlerock

savages-takes three of them to beat up and rob an old man

T. Funke

One less Bible in the world. Cool with me.

And yes, I'm aware it's still "in the world", but I just like to think these thugs needed it to prop up a couch leg or something.

Guest

"One less Bible in the world. Cool with me."

Ladies and gentlemen, Atheistic fundamentalism. Welcome to the big leagues, kids.

Bronxalien2013

The guy who lives in this shithole where he has to walk amongst this garbage everyday needs some sort of consolation and escape. If a bible can make a person forget this and forget that his color is not the favored one in your white society, let him read what he wants. Hes not robbing anybody ya ditz. Everybody has their own way of getting thru life. The 3 shitheads have drugs and violence . I prefer the guy with the Bible.

Rocknrope

I'm seriously sick of reading stories about young thug assholes mugging, stabbing and robbing the young and the elderly. I want old New York back, and by that I mean a Charles Bronson-style New York.