A 75-year-old grandmother was brutally beaten outside her New York City home after she asked her neighbor to pick up after their dog.
Linda Scott was viciously stomped and punched in her front yard following the confrontation at around 9am on April 6, according to the New York Post.
A doorbell camera captured Scott arguing with the dog owner before another woman in a red sweatshirt came in swinging violently at the grandmother.
While Scott was on the ground, the attacker continued to land multiple punches on the elderly woman’s head and proceeded to stomp at least twice on her face.
The assault only stopped when a Navy vet neighbor identifying himself intervened.
Scott recalled fearing for her life during the brutal attack and said she was thinking: ‘God, I hope I live.’
‘I tried to call 911. I think I had them on the open phone number, you know, but I couldn’t do it because I just was shaking too much,’ she added.
Scott sustained heavy bruising to her face and body and was taken to the hospital where she remained for two days.
Linda Scott, 75, was viciously beaten in the front yard of her house in Crown Heights after asking her neighbor to pick up their dog’s excrement
The grandmother was rushed by a woman in a red sweatshirt who began punching and stomping her
Scott’s son Michael told News 12 that his mother was bleeding from her mouth and nose when he found her.
Her neighbor Mr Barnett, 37, told the New York Post that he stopped the attack and worked to evict the thugs from the area.
‘She was screaming, like it was an agonizing scream, like she was in pain, but I wasn’t paying too much attention to it,’ Barnett added.
‘I was just trying to contain the environment and get the people off of her property.’
Scott’s family said they have had issues with a vacant lot near the home, where dog owners repeatedly leave their dog droppings.
She said she recently poured ammonia in the lot to deter animals from entering.
‘People have the dogs run on it, and they poop, and we have to smell it in the backyard,’ Michael said.
‘My mother puts ammonia down to use as a deterrent to keep rats and dogs away because of the smell. All right. It was not used as a weapon.’
Scott was hospitalized but released on Wednesday with heavy bruising to her face and body
Scott’s son, Michael, said his mother was bleeding after the attack
The suspect is still at large. She was seen wearing a red sweatshirt in the footage of her beating the grandmother
The doorbell footage showed Scott arguing with the dog owner about the ammonia.
The grandmother added that she had no reason to be beaten so brutally.
‘No business beating me or any other older person like that. Anybody. Period,’ she said.
The suspect is still at large, according to the New York Police Department.
