Elderly NYC Couple Viciously Attacked, Robbed Of $18

Son Saves The Day But Only After Getting Beaten Up, Too

January 26, 2011 5:48 PM

Joseph Naimo, 81 and son Rocco , with black eye and stitches, after being beaten and mugged (Photo/Juliet Papa)

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NEW YORK (1010 WINS/CBS 2/AP) – Police on Staten Island are looking for a man and woman robbery team that viciously attacked an elderly couple as they were entering their home on Sunday night.

As CBS 2’s John Slattery reports from the Tompkinsville section is the borough, it was the victims’ son who put an end to the beatings.

Joseph Naimo tells 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa that if his son hadn’t stepped in the attackers would’ve killed him and his wife

Joseph Naimo, 81, and his son, Rocco, were recovering Wednesday night from the beatings they received. Joseph’s wife, however, took the worst of the attack.

“They beat her up bad. They beat her up bad. They beat her up very bad,” Joseph said.

Elderly NYC Couple Viciously Attacked, Robbed Of $18

Variety Store and residence of the Naimos who were mugged for $18 (Photo/Juliet Papa)

Linda Naimo, 74, is hospitalized with a broken nose, broken jaw and fractured skull, police told Police told 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa.

Joseph Naimo, who had celebrated his birthday earlier in the day, suffered only cuts and bruises, but his 49-year-old son was visibly hurt, at the hands of the male and female robbery duo, suffering a gash above his left eye, which was also blackened.

The incident happened outside the building they own on Victory Boulevard, where they’ve operated a variety store for 40 years. They’d just closed the store and were entering the door to their apartment up above, when suddenly they were attacked from behind.

“The male kept on punching us, never stopped,” Joseph Naimo told 1010 WINS’ Juliet Papa. “Then when he stopped he just kept on saying, ‘Give me the money.’

“So, I took out a wallet with business cards and he reached in my pocket and took out $18,” he said.

Their son, who was upstairs, heard screaming, ran down and attempted to fight off the two intruders.

“I tried to get involved and tried to stop it. They started beating me up,” Rocco Naimo said. “They punched me continuously and hurt me.”

As for the two thugs who ran off, there were only vague descriptions. Joseph described the female assailant as “short and a little plump,” and that she wore a fur-trimmed hoody. The man was said to be around 6-feet tall.

“He’s an animal. That’s all I have to say. If it wasn’t for my son, I think he would have killed the two of us, for nothing,” Joseph Naimo said.

A police source told Slattery detectives have very little to go on, which is why they’re asking anyone who may know anything, to come forward.

Linda Naimo is being treated in an intensive care unit, in critical condition.

There is a $ 12,000 dollar reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the suspects.

If you have any information about this incident, you are asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. Callers may remain anonymous.

Does this story annoy you to know end? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below.

Maggie Fanelli

Maybe the female perp is the same one who beat up that old lady at the subway station and took her purse.
max

When we stop paying welfare queens for having babies without husbands the problem will solve itself.

Donna

I don’t see that ever happening especially with the present occupants of the white house….
Jerry

Kentucky just passed a law that if you get welfare you must pass a drug test I don’t live in Kentucky but I like that law get these dope snorting crack smoking pill poppers off my taxes

God please help our Country we are going down fast
ed

Maybe a program offering a one time check for voluntary sterilization. Just enough to buy a few days worth of crack would likely be all you need to offer.

frank

That is why I carry – legally
SteveAZ

Sorry, but if you insist upon living in a sewer called, NYC, then………..expect attacks. My grandfather worked his ass off to move farther and farther away from NYC. He was smart. The victims in this story are thick-headed. If they recover, they’ll, no doubt, praise NYC.

jessestone

I’ll take NYC anyday over the desert pit called AZ

Donna

You are one of the ignoramouses Steve was just referring to…
SteveAZ

………….and thank GOD for that, jessestone!!! We don’t want you here!!! Now, go video a brawl in the subway, or crazy NYC folks calling each other “Mutha #@#%er”.
Seairail

And just how thick is your cranium? Obviously a graduate on The NYC School System. Homer Simpson High perhaps?
pointman

You would pick NYC only because you have never been to Arizona. Go there and you will wonder what you ever saw in NY.
ed

Good, when YOU are a crime victim I will be sitting here, safe and able to carry, in AZ laughing.

David Arbogast

Sounds like Detroit’s population of millions flight. Sad all around. But not surprising. I just returned from a trip to Eastern Europe. We flew into JFK and had to cab over to LaGuardia. Talk about a dirty third world country (NYC) with rude inefficient airline people/facilities. It made Detroit look as good as Europe – East and West

DUDE

wow you really love AZ, funny how so many people are leaving your state for places like NYC….I wonder why?

jackg

steve, i live in NYC, because there aren’t many jobs that pay 300,000/year elsewhere.

Donna

That is why the state is going bankrupt….
SteveAZ

$300,000 per year job in NYC of which NYC taxes/confiscates …………..how much?
cjk

So you’re a member of a public employee union then.
Janitor?
schoolteacher?
Cop?
George Plemons

There aren’t to many states that will take 250,000 a year from you in taxes but hey you do what you think is best…lol
Michael H.

Steve, George,

Somebody living in NYC with a $300,000 salary will take home a little more than $166,000. By contrast, somebody living in Texas, where there is no state income tax (i have no data on local tax, for instance if you live in Austin vs. living in a rural town), will bring home around $199,800. That’s a difference of around 10% of your gross.
ed

Yeah, you are making 300k a year……………….sure you are.

exibanker

True.., we should move to Arizona and get SHOT IN THE HEAD BY A WHACK JOB!!!!!
Frank White

Oh, wonderful Arizona, where some maniac shot a congresswoman and killed a nine year old girl? Yep, nothing bad ever happens where you live. What’s with you out of state weirdos trolling NYC message boards to tell everyone what a sewer NYC is and how wonderful it is where you live? If it’s so wonderful, go out and enjoy it. Get a life freak.

smithandwesson

If these thugs would have robbed my grandpa… they would be in the NYC morgue. My advice is to buy a gun and know how to use it. You can not only save your life, but the lives of innocent others. The thugs have their guns… so you should have yours.
Fred

A good argument for concealed weaapons isin’t it?????
bob

I hope these pathetic creatures get burnt alive or at least skinned alive .

heatherfeather

Martial Law!! Martial Law!!

Kevin

This story is so unfairly reported. How were the robbers to know they were beating the elderly people over only 18 dollars? For all they knew, they had thousands in cash on them. We need to be more civil.

smithandwesson

More civil? Since when was it ok to beat two old people over $$$. WHO GIVES A FLYING POO HOW MUCH THEY HAD. “Those poor people… oh… I was talking about the robbers. I hope they send them to Texas and hang ‘em high!!!!!!!
Concerned

IDIOT
John

awesome.
Suzan

So if they had a few grand on them that would have made it O.K.? WE don’t need to be more civil, YOU need to grow a brain cell…what a STOOOOOPID thing to say!
LPB

I agree with Kevin.

We shouldn’t rush to judgement until we know all the facts. These people (please don’t call them perpetrators) may have been hungry, or maybe they had a cable bill to pay.

It could all have been a misundrstanding; did you ever think maybe they were trying to give the Naimos some money and didn’t speak English well enough (because the gov’t hasn’t made enough of an effort to teach them) to let them know what was happening?

And anyway, even if society has forced them to steal, everyne deserves a 25th chance to start over and become a productive member of society.

cjk

I dunno, only 25 chances? Are you some kind of tea-partying right wing fascist?

BluKnight

You’ve got to be kidding, right? How about being concerned for the victims and getting the dirtbags off the street. Wow!

David

Kevin is being sarcastic, ya bunch of morons.
2nd grade reading level

If you can’t understand sarcasm, maybe you shouldn’t be voting. Wait, that’s sarcasm, here it is literally: IF YOU THINK KEVIN WAS SERIOUS YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO VOTE, PLEASE DON’T.
ed

Cannot recognize sarcasm very well at all, huh moron?

Joe

WOW! a Democrat said and I quote

“This story is so unfairly reported. How were the robbers to know they were beating the elderly people over only 18 dollars? For all they knew, they had thousands in cash on them. We need to be more civil.”

Wow!
Cojo

Kevin,
ROTFLMAO!
Good one.
S&W, Concerned, Suzan, Blu Knight. don’t get it.
Too bad
pointman

So Kevin, it would have been OK if they had beaten for a few thousand dollars? What a moron you are. The crooks are not part of civilized society and should be dealt with severely. You obviously have never been mugged.
exibanker

LMFAO!!!!!! True dat bro!

Juan

To bad one of the Old Folk didn’t have a firearm, that’s right only bad Guys/Gals have them in NYC. TICK TOCK TICK TOCK. Better do something soon. Time is running out. I feel very sorry for these people. They need something to protect themselfs. If you Outlaw guns only Outlaws will have them. They don’t really care about the law. ~~~~ They beat old people. ~~~~
zombierocket

Well, at least the robbers weren’t throwing their feces…
John

this sounds just like what Obamacare is doing to Medicare… robbing old people for chump change.

heatherfeather

Brilliant!

Early

New York is a safe place to live. The Major says so.
Ben

lol……………sadly yes, its everywhere…………
Thomas in Newport

(“When will these people stop acting like animals?”) When will they have to? When will the government give them reason to act like part of a civilized society? At this time they receive everything for free and they have been raised to think they are entitled to it. They have been told it is their “right” to not have to work and produce. And NO I am not pointing at any racial group. Over 50% of the people on welfare and food stamps are “white” (of European heritage and ancestry).

(“When will the fathers stay home with their children?”) Why would they if the mothers get more money if the father is not there? And there is a male in the house, just not the same one each night. It may change if they start demanding DNA from the child to identify the father and require him to make support payments. Then they deduct the support payments from the welfare the breeder receives.

This is what the welfare / great society movement has brought to the minority and poor working class “white”. It was an action taken to destroy he minority buy making them dependent on the government to survive.

And yes I do support the 2nd Amendment and thin any state that outlaws the right to own a firearm is going against the contract they signed (The Constitution of the United States of America) to form this country . People in NY and other places need to remember the old saying “better tried by 12 then carried by 6”.

Logical1

The government needs to stop givivng . They need to require you to act civilized or be removed from society permanently…Maybe commrade obama could send them to commrade chavez….
Albert Jensen

It is sad to see replies like your’s. Like most republicans you can only talk and promise but never have a solution. First define the State of the Union. So-called Conservatives who demand they pay little or no taxes while watching America’s infrastructure fall apart and close down factories and send all the jobs to foreign countries and when a person who was laid off because the jobs are now gone run out of unemployment benefits and are unable to find a new job because in fact there is no more jobs you cut off and refuse to extend their benefits any further. If we don’t go back to tariff’s and transaction fees for internet purchases and raise the taxes America is simply toast.

MDWhite

OK…
The “State of the union” is a concise report on the issues, problems and challenges facing the nation and a clear, concise outline of how those issues have been and will be addressed. How’s that?

You want solutions? How about these for starters…

Solution: stop spending on frivolous programs and projects.
Solution: grasp the unavoidable fact that that excessive taxes never made a country great.
Solution: understand that you can’t spend your way to prosperity.
Solution: realize that if you’re in a hole, you won’t get out by digging it deeper.
Solution: recognize that if the “car is in the ditch,” the best way out is to back up, not shift into overdrive.
Solution: stop kicking the can down the block on issues such as illegal immigration, tort reform, union greed, etc.
Solution: stop talking in “feel good” political platitudes.
Solution: stop making promises you have no intention of keeping.
Solution: stop trying to quell legitimate criticism.
Solution: stop demonizing those who disagree with you.
Solution: stop treating the American people like they’re idiots.
Solution: stop avoiding responsibility like a guilty teenager.
Solution: stop blaming everybody else for your own shortcomings and failures.
Solution: start acting like a president and not like a smug, arrogant, “kick ass” street punk.
Solution: seek advice from people who have the common good at heart.
Solution: stop thinking like the leader of a party and more like a president.

Chew on that for a while, Albert.
Lance

Albert Jensen said: “Like most republicans you can only talk and promise but never have a solution”

WHAT? You’ve got it backwards, pal. It’s the Dems that constantly run their mouths, saying anything that will get them another vote. They would burn the country to get re-elected.

Additionally, Republicans are pro-gun; Dems are not. BTW, you know what a Republican is? A Dem that’s been mugged.
ed

I hope and pray daily that every brainless liberal like you gets robbed and their head bashed in by one of the downtrodden victims you pretend to care about.

Pistol Pete

Bravo, good sir, well said.

rex dart eskimo spy

I blame the white racist tea party movement, talk radio and global warming for this horrible attack. Clearly if there were no rich old white people, there wouldn’t be any attacks like this.
PoorUSA

hahahahahaha….excellent
Gary

Your wrong Troy! See criminals are typically cowards that prey on the weak and defenseless. The bad guys already have guns because that is the nature of their business, they break laws, so they will always have guns regardless of gun laws. If more law abiding citizens wee armed these cowards would have to think twice. Look at the states with fewer gun laws and/or conceal and carry laws. Its a fact they have far lower crime rates then those states with the strictest gun laws and no conceal and carry laws. Unless this was sarcasm Troy you need to think about it logically and do some research.

Troy

Hmmmm….Gary that was a sarcasm comment. I’m well aware that the good guys follow the laws, the bad guys don’t follow the laws, that’s why they are bad guys.
Greta

Logic? Research? Libturds are deathly allergic to both!

John Knight

WOW !, you would think that with all Donald Trumps money he would put something on his head that doesn’t resemble a Google funny cat photo.
Regulas

Probably Obama supports, just a guess.
SLHaynes

I hope the police catch these horrible criminals and put them away for life.
Jason Coats

What suprises me is that this suprises anyone anymore… So sad…
Beneteau

I am absolutely shocked that CBS actually identified the race! Will miracles never cease? –Beneteau

digitus

Gee, I thought it was only me in Arizona seeing this going on. Too bad either of us has to mention it. The comments got so bad yesterday on the Wendy’s melee that they shut it down on one thread.
exibanker

Agree.., I was in shock!

Dutra

This article bravely states the color of the assailants. I am proud of the author and the editor.

Ben

Brave? I see what you mean but really, in 90+% of these cases its a given……..a plague upon decent society, period.
1776

Indeed. Tis a shame the scourge of “political correctness” (spawned from cultural marxism) hath run amok.

Patriot

Someone once said that there are animals out there who will kill you for your sneakers – and the news repeatedly reinforces this observation. So what will cities like NYC, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, LA, and Houston be like if we’re hit by an EMP or nuke? World War 3 may start in our backyards…. so protect you and yours – stand up for your rights when it comes to the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
Bill

1/26/11 Daily Mail: “The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S.”

The UK banned all firearms about 15 years ago. Now, in fact, only the criminals have guns.

Liberals are incapable of learning beyond their simple-minded bromides like: Ban Guns! Diversity is Good! etc. etc. etc.

Greta

And it’s not called “learning,” its’ called being BRAINWASHED and regurgitating talking points. Libturds EXCEL at both. Fools.

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