Man sentenced for beating, robbing elderly women

Carlos Demetri Kirksey
Carlos Demetri Kirksey
photo Carlos Demetri Kirksey

A 20-year-old man was sentenced to three years in prison this week for beating and robbing two elderly women in 2016.

Carlos Kirksey Jr. also received three years probation Thursday in Hamilton County Criminal Court for a separate robbery he committed while out on bond, records show.

Police said Kirksey approached a 71-year-old woman who was walking to her car in the Northgate Mall parking lot after a meal with her grandchildren on Jan. 12, 2016. A witness told authorities that he saw a man strike the woman with a closed first, grab her purse and flee between 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Later that night, the witness picked Kirksey out of a photo lineup.

Kirksey was also charged in a similar robbery of another elderly woman that occured eight days earlier at a Mapco gas station on Highway 58, police said. The 80-year-old victim called police on him when she saw Kirksey on the news for the robbery outside of Northgate.

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