Disabled Woman Beaten During Robbery Outside Her Home

A disabled woman said she was assaulted right in front of her home at the Pleasant View Apartments in east Charlotte.

She is too frightened to share her name. She said just before midnight Saturday, her neighbor drove her home from a trip to Wal-Mart. The two got out of the car in front of their apartments when a man with a sawed-off shotgun jumped in front of them and demanded money.

A friend who was inside the home didn't know there was anything wrong and opened the door.

"My friend didn't know what was going on, and she came outside with her pocketbook. He saw it, so he dragged me up the sidewalk and approached her and said, 'Give me the pocketbook; otherwise, I'll shoot you,'" she said.

She said she has nerve damage to her leg, so she's either in a wheelchair, or walking with a cane, like she was doing Saturday night.

She said after the gunman got her friend's purse, he assaulted her.

"The next thing I know, he hits me with the shotgun, the back of shotgun to the ear, then to my lower back," she said.

The robber then ran off.

Eyewitness News talked to neighbors in the area who all know the victim. Myke Strong said it's a quiet place for families.

"I can't believe someone would take advantage of someone helpless like that,” he said.

Until the robber is caught, the victim said it's not her disability that will confine her, but her newfound fear.

“Now I'm too scared to go out anywhere. He took my safety away from this place where I live. It's gone; it's gone,” she said.