Cops nab ex-con wanted for brutally slugging grandmother
The ex-con wanted for cold-cocking a 69-year-old grandmother has been arrested after evading police for nearly two weeks, authorities said Monday.
Richard “Kwasi” Springer, 29, was taken down at 11:30 a.m. by the regional fugitive task force near his last known address on 109th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, police said.
His victim, Eve Gentillon, the church-going grandmother of two who has been on a ventilator since the heartless attack, is still in a medically induced coma at Jamaica Hospital.
Her daughter told The Post last week that things will never be the same for her and that her only sign of progress was a brief opening of her eyes.
Springer’s associates were hiding him from cops by moving him to different addresses, sources said.
He had been wanted since the Oct. 15 violent altercation at a Queens deli on Sutphin Boulevard.
Police said he got into a fight with a cashier at Sutphin King Deli when he tried to pay $1 for a $3.50 can of Bud Light Lime Straw-Ber-Rita.
He was captured on surveillance video scuffling with the shop owner before going outside and punching Gentillon so hard, she smacked her head on the concrete and was knocked out cold, authorities said.
Springer, a career criminal, has only been out of prison since March after serving nearly three years for robbery.
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