Churchgoer slashed outside Brownsville home after greeting her attacker

An 83-year-old woman says a simple greeting led to a violent attack outside her Brownsville apartment building Sunday morning as she waited for an Uber on her way to church.

Betty Ellerbe said she noticed a man loitering near Glenmore and Christopher avenues before he suddenly slashed her in the neck.

“I looked at his hand and saw the big stick and I looked at his face and then in the other hand a big knife,” she said…

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