CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A disabled woman is living in fear after robbers stole her money and medication in west Charlotte on Wednesday, she said.
Even though Alvonna Jolavette Neal uses a walker to move around, she explained how she tried to fight back.
She said she had to start using the walker after she was shot in the hip 17 years ago. The bullet is still lodged in her pelvis.
She said she was walking to a bus stop Wednesday on her way to a doctor’s appointment when a man approached her on Coronia Street in west Charlotte.
“A black car drove up and a guy got out,” she said.
He asked her how to find Amay James Avenue, Neal said. When she tried to point him in the right direction, he attacked.
“I pointed. My pocketbook slid down. He grabbed it and we were tussling,” she said.
Then the robber overpowered her.
“He just pushed me down. Then he got in the car and took off,” Neal said.
The man got away with Neal’s pain and asthma medication, Social Security card, an ID and some cash. She was left bruised and scratched.
Now, she’s trying to replace her medications.
Neal told police her attacker was a black man, about 30 years old, wearing a tank top and baggy jeans. She said the man was heavy set, about 5-feet 8-inches tall and had a mustache.
For now, Neal is staying close to her dog at home, feeling safer with the animal’s protection. But she knows she cannot stay home forever.
“I wish they would catch him and lock him up for what he did to me because it caused me a lot of pain,” Neal said.
Neal said the car left the area headed west on Caronia Street toward Ridge Avenue.