Elderly pair robbed in their home
By Conrad deFIebre Staff Writer
For 52 years, Florence Borash never feared for her safety in the St. Paul home where she and her husband raised five children.
Not until Sunday morning, when two men walked in their unlocked kitchen door brandishing knives and robbed the octogenarian couple of their money and rings.
Florence Borash, 84, said that after one intruder tore the telephone from the wall, "I thought, 'Oh, we're going to be sliced.' I was so scared." But scared or not, she decided to act. Borash, who uses a walker to get around, picked up the receiver from the fallen telephone, hobbled around the kitchen table and smashed a window. Then she yelled for help.
That brought a quick reaction from one of the robbers, who had been momentarily distracted from her.
"Boy, was that fellow ever mad at me," Borash said. "He shoved me and I fell on the floor. That's when I said an 'Our father.' Then he told me to get up, and I said I couldn't. So he politely lifted me up to a chair. Then he said: “I want that ring.'"
It had three rubies surrounded by tiny diamonds, a gift from one of Borash's sons. She refused to give it up, so the robber pulled it off.
Meanwhile, the other robber took a gold ring from John Borash, 82. The robbers also took $170 in cash from the couple before fleeing the house on Winter St.
Police described the robbers as black men in their mid-20s with medium builds. One was 5 feet 8, the other 5 feet 10. They were dressed in black.
The Borash home is in a high-crime neighborhood near Rice St., but Florence Borash said she has no thought of moving. "It's been a. perfect neighborhood until now," she said. "I don't think there's any place in the world where you aren't in danger. I have never locked my kitchen door, but I think I might' have to do that."
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tue, Sep 01, 1992
Military Information: PFC, US ARMY
By Conrad deFIebre Staff Writer
For 52 years, Florence Borash never feared for her safety in the St. Paul home where she and her husband raised five children.
Not until Sunday morning, when two men walked in their unlocked kitchen door brandishing knives and robbed the octogenarian couple of their money and rings.
Florence Borash, 84, said that after one intruder tore the telephone from the wall, "I thought, 'Oh, we're going to be sliced.' I was so scared." But scared or not, she decided to act. Borash, who uses a walker to get around, picked up the receiver from the fallen telephone, hobbled around the kitchen table and smashed a window. Then she yelled for help.
That brought a quick reaction from one of the robbers, who had been momentarily distracted from her.
"Boy, was that fellow ever mad at me," Borash said. "He shoved me and I fell on the floor. That's when I said an 'Our father.' Then he told me to get up, and I said I couldn't. So he politely lifted me up to a chair. Then he said: “I want that ring.'"
It had three rubies surrounded by tiny diamonds, a gift from one of Borash's sons. She refused to give it up, so the robber pulled it off.
Meanwhile, the other robber took a gold ring from John Borash, 82. The robbers also took $170 in cash from the couple before fleeing the house on Winter St.
Police described the robbers as black men in their mid-20s with medium builds. One was 5 feet 8, the other 5 feet 10. They were dressed in black.
The Borash home is in a high-crime neighborhood near Rice St., but Florence Borash said she has no thought of moving. "It's been a. perfect neighborhood until now," she said. "I don't think there's any place in the world where you aren't in danger. I have never locked my kitchen door, but I think I might' have to do that."
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tue, Sep 01, 1992
Military Information: PFC, US ARMY
Elderly pair robbed in their home
By Conrad deFIebre Staff Writer
For 52 years, Florence Borash never feared for her safety in the St. Paul home where she and her husband raised five children.
Not until Sunday morning, when two men walked in their unlocked kitchen door brandishing knives and robbed the octogenarian couple of their money and rings.
Florence Borash, 84, said that after one intruder tore the telephone from the wall, "I thought, 'Oh, we're going to be sliced.' I was so scared." But scared or not, she decided to act. Borash, who uses a walker to get around, picked up the receiver from the fallen telephone, hobbled around the kitchen table and smashed a window. Then she yelled for help.
That brought a quick reaction from one of the robbers, who had been momentarily distracted from her.
"Boy, was that fellow ever mad at me," Borash said. "He shoved me and I fell on the floor. That's when I said an 'Our father.' Then he told me to get up, and I said I couldn't. So he politely lifted me up to a chair. Then he said: “I want that ring.'"
It had three rubies surrounded by tiny diamonds, a gift from one of Borash's sons. She refused to give it up, so the robber pulled it off.
Meanwhile, the other robber took a gold ring from John Borash, 82. The robbers also took $170 in cash from the couple before fleeing the house on Winter St.
Police described the robbers as black men in their mid-20s with medium builds. One was 5 feet 8, the other 5 feet 10. They were dressed in black.
The Borash home is in a high-crime neighborhood near Rice St., but Florence Borash said she has no thought of moving. "It's been a. perfect neighborhood until now," she said. "I don't think there's any place in the world where you aren't in danger. I have never locked my kitchen door, but I think I might' have to do that."
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tue, Sep 01, 1992
Military Information: PFC, US ARMY
By Conrad deFIebre Staff Writer
For 52 years, Florence Borash never feared for her safety in the St. Paul home where she and her husband raised five children.
Not until Sunday morning, when two men walked in their unlocked kitchen door brandishing knives and robbed the octogenarian couple of their money and rings.
Florence Borash, 84, said that after one intruder tore the telephone from the wall, "I thought, 'Oh, we're going to be sliced.' I was so scared." But scared or not, she decided to act. Borash, who uses a walker to get around, picked up the receiver from the fallen telephone, hobbled around the kitchen table and smashed a window. Then she yelled for help.
That brought a quick reaction from one of the robbers, who had been momentarily distracted from her.
"Boy, was that fellow ever mad at me," Borash said. "He shoved me and I fell on the floor. That's when I said an 'Our father.' Then he told me to get up, and I said I couldn't. So he politely lifted me up to a chair. Then he said: “I want that ring.'"
It had three rubies surrounded by tiny diamonds, a gift from one of Borash's sons. She refused to give it up, so the robber pulled it off.
Meanwhile, the other robber took a gold ring from John Borash, 82. The robbers also took $170 in cash from the couple before fleeing the house on Winter St.
Police described the robbers as black men in their mid-20s with medium builds. One was 5 feet 8, the other 5 feet 10. They were dressed in black.
The Borash home is in a high-crime neighborhood near Rice St., but Florence Borash said she has no thought of moving. "It's been a. perfect neighborhood until now," she said. "I don't think there's any place in the world where you aren't in danger. I have never locked my kitchen door, but I think I might' have to do that."
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tue, Sep 01, 1992
Military Information: PFC, US ARMY
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