A Hialeah grandmother fended off a gunman when he attacked her daughter in their own driveway and took off with her purse, the South Florida Sun Sentinel said.
Josefa Lopez, who turned 81 on Thursday, is only 4-foot-9-inches tall but went through a rough ordeal.
Lopez said that she was in the backseat of the car when she saw a man pull her 61-year-old daughter, Teresa Medina, out of the driver's seat.
Lopez saw her daughter on the ground with her face bleeding. She had been pulled by her hair, kicked and pistol-whipped, according to the newspaper.
"I thought she was dead. I yelled at [the gunman], 'I am going to kill you, [son of a b----]!'" Lopez told the Sentinel.
Lopez got out of the car and walked toward the man. She said she tugged on his shirt and was about to hit him with her cane when he turned around and fired a shot at her.
The bullet missed.
"I was trying to scream to my mother to run inside the house," Medina said in Spanish.
Police are looking for the two men involved in the crime, one of whom was the getaway driver.
The incident occurred on the 1000 block of West 46 St. The men fled the home in a brown four-door sedan with Medina's purse, according to police.
Lopez said that she and her daughter are now scared to leave the house, where they have lived for nine years.
