Woman in Critical Condition After Being Attacked on the Steps of Her Church

A 68-year-old woman suffered a fractured skull as she was mugged on the steps of her Queens church on Sunday morning

“Horrible. I could not believe my eyes, seeing what he did to this lady,” Rev. Konstantinos Kalogridis of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church said, according to WNBC-TV.

“She was coming to church to pray, to participate. I don’t know what kind of a person this is but evil. Pure evil,” he said.

The 8:30 a.m. attack took place Sunday.

Surveillance video shows the woman walking up the steps to enter the church. A figure in a hooded sweatshirt runs up the steps to get to the top first. Once here, he shoves the woman down the steps.

Video shows him taking her purse before leaving.

The purse had $300, a cellphone, credit card and car keys, police said, according to WPIX-TV.

The woman was initially listed in critical condition at Booth Memorial Hospital.

Police said they have a lead on a suspect.

Family friend Daniel Coffaro, said the woman, who he referred to only by her first name of Irene, is now in stable condition in the intensive care unit with a fractured skull