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BOSTON — Authorities are searching for a suspect accused of assaulting an elderly woman in a Boston park on September 18.
Police say they responded to the Rose Garden in the Southwest Corridor Park in the area of 363 Massachusetts Avenue for a report of a robbery and assault and battery.
Officers on scene spoke with the elderly victim who had a visible welt on her forehead, according to police. Staff on scene told police the victim also suffers from dementia.
Officials say the victim was knocked to the ground by a black female in her 40′s wearing a yellow vest, dark pants, dark sneakers, and a yellow and green Ducks baseball hat. Witnesses tell Boston Police the attack was completely unprovoked.
Anyone with information about the assault is asked to call police.
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