Bronx grandmother robbed at gunpoint of $100K worth of jewelry, according to family
Surveillance camera footage shows the woman wheeling her trash down the driveway when two masked men get out of the Jeep and corner her with a gun.
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A Bronx grandmother was robbed at gunpoint twice in five months, according to the family.
Screams for help could be heard down a Castle Hill street on Monday evening, after police say the 58-year-old was robbed in her driveway.
The family, who asked for their names to be withheld due to fear for their safety, says their mother had just gotten home around 6:30 p.m. Monday night when a silver Jeep approached their home. Surveillance camera footage shows the woman wheeling her trash down the driveway when two masked men get out of the Jeep and corner her with a gun. One of the alleged robbers then goes into her car and removes a bag of jewelry - that the family says is worth $50,000.
"They tell her they are going to kill her if she doesn't give the bag she had," said the womans husband.
The womans husband says it's not the first time his wife, who works in jewelry sales, has been targeted. They say five months ago, she was robbed of another bag of jewelry worth the same amount after meeting with a customer near East Tremont Avenue.
"We are out $100,000 in one year, we are afraid for our life I think the people are tracking us, they are following us. We need help from the community to help to identify those people because those people need to be taken out of the street. They may end up killing somebody or killing somebody for my family," said the woman's husband. "They have taken all of our savings, we don't know what's going to happen, two of my grandchildren were here, we feel unsafe, we feel very unsafe right now."
The family says they did have an Apple AirTag on the bag of jewelry that was last tracked to an apartment on Sedgewick Avenue before the AirTag was ditched.
Police are asking anyone with information to call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 800-577-TIPS.
