Police search for 2 who robbed woman, 93

Police are searching for two men who followed a 93-year-old woman into her Center City apartment building and robbed her on Monday morning, leaving her shaken and with a broken wrist.

One man distracted the security guard in the lobby of the building at 15th and Locust Streets by asking him to look up whether his grandmother still lived in the building. The guard looked through several logs and even asked a second security guard to assist in finding the grandmother. Police said the conversation was a ruse and that the man's grandmother does not live there.

Meanwhile, the second man slipped past the front desk and followed the woman into an elevator. There he pushed her, took cash and credit cards and kicked her off the elevator. The woman suffered a broken wrist and other minor injuries, but she was not seriously hurt.

The thieves made off with $6, said Philadelphia Lt. Frank Vanore.

"Anyone who's going to perpetrate a robbery of someone of this age, for $6, needs to be found," Vanore said.

The two African American men were filmed by security cameras in the building's lobby, which show them to be well-dressed. The man who distracted the guard is about 5-foot-9, 40 to 50 years old and about 180 pounds. He was wearing a brown suit jacket and khaki pants. The man who attacked the woman is about 6-foot-2, 195 pounds and between 30 and 40 years old. He was wearing a maroon shirt, baseball cap and glasses.

Anyone with information is asked to call Central Detectives at 215-686-3093 or 3094.