By RASHAD ROLLE
Tribune Staff Reporter
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
A HARROWING assault of a morning jogger has left the victim and her husband with a warning to Bahamians not to go jogging alone, even in crowded areas.
With his Siberian Huskie by his side, Reginald Fox, 71, found his wife, Linda Fox, 53, lying on a sidewalk with blood streaming down her nose and lip yesterday morning in the vicinity of the Sidney Poitier Bridge.
They were taking their morning jog, although Mr Fox was well behind his wife at the time of the incident.
Mrs Fox told The Tribune she was heading toward Montagu Beach when she alleged a man in a black jogging suit, his head covered by a hoodie, attacked her.
“He was walking towards me,” she said, her nose covered in bandage strapped on by staff at Doctors Hospital. “When I saw that, I went on the opposite side of the sidewalk and when I moved, he moved over and kept coming after me. I then knew I was in trouble.
“He grabbed me in my front and I swung around to elbow him and that’s when he pushed me to the ground and ran off.”
Although she had a bag, the man stole nothing from her, she said.
“When he ran off, there was a guy coming towards me and another one coming from behind me,” she said. “The other walkers we know and I think that might have frightened him off.”
The two walk in the area every morning, but Mrs Fox said she will never again do so unless someone is by her side. Mrs Fox damaged the cartilage in her nose and also injured her knees and elbows.
“You hear about violence but you never think it’s going to happen to you and then it does and it kind of wakes you up to reality of what we are living with right now,” she said, her eyes watery.
Mr Fox said he wished his wife had got a better description of her attacker, so he could have gone “looking for him”.
“The danger is despite vehicles passing in the area, nobody bothered to stop,” he said, noting that there were lots of walkers and cars nearby.
Comments
Publius 7 years ago
Regrettable situation, but the headline is greatly sensationalized.
jackbnimble 7 years ago
I wonder what time this happened because I jog the bridge periodically in the mornings so this is scary. I know that the car jackers target cars parked at the IBM building in the early hours but now they are attacking people? Jesus Is anywhere safe??
Thanks for the heads up. I'm glad to see nothing worse happened and I wish the lady a speedy recovery.
242gyal 7 years ago
What's the point of trying to enjoy a life here. Get in your house behind grilled windows and battened down doors. Run to your cars and lock em. Don't stop at at red lights. Don't jog anywhere. Get robbed and and raped by your fellow citizens. Get robbed and raped by your government. Nassau needs a good razing like old growth forests to clear out the disease to make room for fresh healthy life.
banker 7 years ago
That's why I was losing clients in the wealth management business. Life is too small and too unsafe in Nassau. A university friend's wife was mugged at the end of the bridge. They see a white woman with a wallet and swarmed her. Luckily a uniformed security guard came running and all she got was a bruise. She said the punks looked her straight in the eye defiantly as they were grabbing her wallet in her hand.
I too, am not long for this limestone rock, and I can only hope by some deus ex machina, tings start to get better.
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