One heartwarming thing to come from the horrible mugging of 85-year-old Lillian France in a Brooklyn apartment building's elevator: The Daily News reports that Megdar Evans College student Keyston Boyce raised $900 to replace the money that was stolen from France. Boyston, who "led a door-to-door effort," explained, "She could have easily been my grandmother." (Police arrested Cornelius Abson, suspected of mugging many other senior citizens, a few days after the crime.) France said of Boyce, "In spite of all these bad things that are going on in this country and in our neighborhoods, there are still good kids around who are willing to do good things." more ›

Cornelius Abson, who admitted to choking and robbing an 85-year-old woman as well as robbing other victims, appeared in court last Friday. However, his arraignment was postponed because his lawyer requested a psychological exam. more ›

After being chocked into unconsciousness and robbed, we can't blame 85-year-old Lillian France for being pissed at the guy who attacked her. Cornelius Abson, who was caught on tape preying upon France in a Crown Heights elevator and arrested yesterday, confessed to police and apologized to France in a written letter, blaming it on his crack addiction. But France said, "How can he be sorry when I was the, I understand, the 12th victim?" more ›

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After the disturbing footage showing an 85-year-old woman who was followed into an apartment building, choked to unconsciousness in the elevator, and then robbed of her money AND cane, the NYPD is now, per Newsday, "focusing in large part on the area around Flatbush, near Prospect Park." more ›