Hub woman tries to Fendi off 3 chic muggers
By Laurel J. Sweet
Friday, August 18, 2006 - Updated: 02:44 AM EST
A Boston woman overtaken by three muggers was kicked in the head and threatened at gunpoint when she refused to surrender her Prada and Fendi bags yesterday.
Amanda Grey, 21, was jumped while walking on Huntington Avenue in the Back Bay just after midnight. As she screamed for help, Grey kept a tight grip on the top-dollar designer handbags, even as she had a firearm aimed at her head and was dragged several feet.
Grey, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, lost the battle. A good Samaritan, who saw the suspects rummaging through the purses next to the Lenox Hotel, returned them to police.
A Boston cop was injured when he fell while chasing one of the suspects, later identified as Jason Henry Simmons, 22, of Roxbury. Simmons alleged accomplices remain at large.
Simmons was arraigned yesterday in Boston Municipal Court on armed robbery and assault and battery charges. He was ordered held on $250,000 cash bail by Judge Annette Forde.
Boston police spokesman Officer John Boyle does not advocate the death-defying heroics Grey risked.
You can replace property, Boyle said. You cant replace your life.
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By Laurel J. Sweet
Friday, August 18, 2006 - Updated: 02:44 AM EST
A Boston woman overtaken by three muggers was kicked in the head and threatened at gunpoint when she refused to surrender her Prada and Fendi bags yesterday.
Amanda Grey, 21, was jumped while walking on Huntington Avenue in the Back Bay just after midnight. As she screamed for help, Grey kept a tight grip on the top-dollar designer handbags, even as she had a firearm aimed at her head and was dragged several feet.
Grey, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, lost the battle. A good Samaritan, who saw the suspects rummaging through the purses next to the Lenox Hotel, returned them to police.
A Boston cop was injured when he fell while chasing one of the suspects, later identified as Jason Henry Simmons, 22, of Roxbury. Simmons alleged accomplices remain at large.
Simmons was arraigned yesterday in Boston Municipal Court on armed robbery and assault and battery charges. He was ordered held on $250,000 cash bail by Judge Annette Forde.
Boston police spokesman Officer John Boyle does not advocate the death-defying heroics Grey risked.
You can replace property, Boyle said. You cant replace your life.
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wow, that's crazy. I wouldn't die over my bags. Bags can be replace but not life.
