HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston police are trying to find a person caught on digicam robbing an amputee in a wheelchair outdoors a north Houston fuel station.
The sufferer, who didn’t wish to be recognized, says he depends on his wheelchair after shedding each legs to an an infection.
“How are you going to knock any individual down like that? Like me. I am in a wheelchair. I simply can’t imagine it,” he stated.
The incident occurred early within the morning in late July outdoors a fuel station close to Tidwell and Fulton.
“All people is aware of. I have been coming right here for years,” the person stated.
He instructed ABC13 {that a} man seen within the surveillance video pushed him to the bottom earlier than taking off along with his pockets and cellphone in only a matter of minutes.
“I did not know this man was standing there. Subsequent factor you recognize, I used to be on the bottom,” he stated.
He says police arrived inside minutes, however they weren’t capable of monitor down the suspect.
Though the sufferer didn’t endure main accidents, he stated he spent greater than a day within the hospital and apprehensive about his private belongings.
“He took my pockets and all my identification, my cellphone, all the pieces,” he stated.
Whereas he has changed all of these gadgets, he has a message for the one that has triggered him a lot ache.
“Flip your self in, man. You recognize you probably did flawed. Should you’re man sufficient to knock me down, why aren’t you man sufficient to show your self in?,” he stated.
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