Vivian Squires, the 86-year-old Queens resident who was repeatedly slashed during a home invasion robbery on Sunday morning, spoke to reporters yesterday. And she seems like an amazing, tough lady: "We tussled and tussled and landed on the floor and I was still fighting him, trying to remember all the things I'd seen in the movies, and grabbing him. Maybe my prison experience came back. I spent 21 years as a correction officer. If I had a gun, he'd be gone." Her attacker initially tried to smother her with a pillow, but then resorted to using a knife when she fought back. Squires explained she fought back because it wasn't her time to die, "When you get old you have a tendency to want to sit in the chair and rock and just feel old, and I don't have time for that." She'd also like to meet her attacker—who stole her cash, jewelry and car— and ask him why he did this, but, at any rate, Squires is praying for him. more ›

Yesterday, an 86-year-old woman was stabbed repeatedly in the neck and back when a man broke into her home in Springfield Gardens around 6:30 a.m. Police say the robber broke in through a window and put a pillow over Vivian Squires' head as he slashed her. He stole cash, jewelry and her Chrysler sedan. Squires, who has lived in her home for 50 years, is in stable condition at Mary Immaculate Hospital. A neighbor told NY1, "Why would someone try to hurt her? Just take whatever they want and leave. Don't hurt her," while another said, "I don't understand why anybody would assault, let alone a 86-year-old woman, but anyone for that matter, but in this instance someone who obviously cannot fight back. And whoever did it had knowledge of her being here." The Post reports her nephew was home at the time, but slept through the attack; he is considered a "person of interest." more ›