FORT PIERCE, FL -- Norma Griffith is recovering from a Halloween nightmare. She looks at pictures of her bruised face. There's no makeup in those photos.
She was doing work around her home on Gardenia Avenue Saturday morning when two men approached asking for a jump for their car. When she said no, one of the men took a gun from his pocket.
Norma yelled for her boyfriend Wayne Parrish who lives across the street. But he was mowing the lawn and couldn't hear her cries for help as the suspects forced her inside.
The suspects used one of her blankets to tie her to one of her dining room chairs. Then they found a cloth bag and put it over her head. The suspects demanded more money. Norma recalled she had a bowl of change on her dresser, which the thieves took as they ransacked the home.
"I was like ‘please don't hurt me, please don't hurt me.’ Naturally what went through my head was they were going to kill me."
After the crooks left, Norma freed herself and ran across the way. She helped cops nab one of the suspects, 18 year-old Moyea Kennedy, remembering he had a tattoo on the inside of his forearm.
Right now, Norma only wants to stay in the arms of her boyfriend, and move past a very scary weekend.
"You know I have to put it in the back of my mind and go on living. I know it'll never go away but I will go on. I'm a very strong person," she said.
