1. Bad Health And a Thief Put a Woman In Crisis.
- Author
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KELLEY, TINA
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ARMED robbery , *MYOCARDIAL infarction - Abstract
Lucy Rodriguez, 57, has lived in the same two-bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens, for 32 years. The living room is painted in a fashionable gold, and the sun streams in past family pictures. She felt safe there, with at least a dozen cherub figurines watching over her. Until early Labor Day morning. Ms. Rodriguez, who has carefully kept blond hair, worked as a hairdresser until 1990, when she had a heart attack and went on disability. On Sept. 1, she was coming back from an emergency room visit after midnight when a man walked down her entryway stairs from the roof, showed her his knife, and took her purse and jewelry. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Published
- 2008