MINNEAPOLIS — A south Minneapolis woman says her Sunday morning was turned upside down after she looked out of her kitchen window toward her garage.
“I walked in the kitchen and immediately saw that the garage was ajar and I knew right away. Like oh, they took the bike,” said Angela Mitchell of the Powderhorn neighborhood.
Mitchell says the process of getting the bike started last year was more important to her than just for getting around.
“It is something that I knew that I wanted based on my multiple sclerosis,” she said. “When I have to do pretty intense hills, I have to stop and try to walk it and it can become really cumbersome and frustrating. And so I wanted to try an e-bike and saved up for it and actually reached out to the MS Society to see if they had any grants or anything that they could help me with more.”
Thankfully help did arrive and last November, Mitchell was finally able to purchase the $1,300 bike she had her eye on. With winter on the way though, she had to store it in the garage, meaning she never had a chance to ride it before it was stolen.