Alonzo Brown NYC Attack: Man Who Kicked, Robbed Woman and Baby in the Bronx Says 'I'm Sorry'
Despite his apology, a 24-year-old mother says she can't forgive the man who brutally kicked and robbed her while she was holding her 2-month-old baby in New York City last week.
The suspect, 18-year old Alonzo Brown, confessed to the crime after he was spotted on a surveillance video attacking the mother on East Tremont Ave in the Bronx around 1 p.m. last Friday. He then grabbed her cell phone and ran away.
On Tuesday, Brown told WABC-TV Eyewitness News that he regretted the attack and that he didn't initially realize that the mother was holding a baby.
"I'm sorry," said Brown from the back of a police car. "I didn't know it was the baby that was there," he said, adding "I didn't see the baby" until after "she hit the floor."
Brown, who has 11 prior arrests, is being charged with robbery, attempted robbery, assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
The victim, Odila Orozco, says that his apology is not accepted.
"He shouldn't be apologizing, he clearly saw the moment when she was walking in front of him with her baby, so he shouldn't be apologizing," said a translator for Orozco.
"He saw I was carrying a baby," Orozco told The New York Post. "But he hit me from behind and stole my phone."
"He attacked me and left me on the floor, crying with my baby,'' she said.
"I can't forgive someone like that ..." she added. "If he was a hardworking man who understood what it was like to work by the sweat of his brow, then I would have more sympathy for him, but he's a criminal.
"How many other women has he hurt? He hurt me, and he could've killed my baby."
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