Crime & Safety

Woman Helps Norwood Police Catch Alleged Attackers

The hands are bandaged, her eyes are bruised and puffy, and her ribs are sore. But she helped Norwood police nab the two men jumped her.

NORWOOD (CBS) – “The first thing is like poom, boom, pow,” said an animated 60-year-old Brigitte Ndikum-Nyada as she remembered how two young men jumped and attacked her while she waited for her cousin to pick her up from a Commuter Rail stop in Norwood after 5:30 Tuesday evening.

“’You shout, we will kill you. Give us your money, give us your money, give us your money.’ Even though they were asking for my money, they kept punching. The punching kept raining on me,” Ndikum-Nyada said.

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