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- A 62-year-old Colwyn woman was walking to a Yeadon grocery
store early yesterday morning when someone ran up behind her and struck
her in the neck.
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- The woman did her shopping - buying a newspaper and Oreo
cookies - and walked the half-mile home, unaware for at least 40 minutes
of what no passersby, other shoppers or clerks bothered to mention:
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- The handle of a kitchen knife was sticking out of her
neck.
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- Police in Delaware County said the woman, whom they would
not identify, was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,
where she was in serious condition last night.
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- "It appears that five or six people [in the supermarket]
walked right past her without even noticing," Darby Police Chief Robert
F. Smythe said.
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- Police said the woman gave this account:
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- About 6:50 a.m., after leaving her home in the 300 block
of Third Street, she was at Cedar and Coventry Streets in Darby Borough
when an unidentified person struck her in the neck.
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- The assailant did not try to rob her, and did not stop
running.
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- She continued to the Acme Supermarket at 125 Chester
Ave. in Yeadon and then walked home. When she began undressing to take
a shower, her daughter, with whom she lives, saw the knife.
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- Smythe said he did not know how large the knife was.
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- Detectives interviewed the woman at the hospital but
have no motive and no suspects. She could not say whether the assailant
was a man or a woman.
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- "It's a random, vicious attack, and I don't know
why," Smythe said.
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- Photographs taken by supermarket surveillance cameras
showed her shopping with the knife jutting out of her neck.
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