As armed robberies go, few might leave the victim feeling this trapped and helpless.
A 77-year-old woman was cornered in an elevator and robbed at knifepoint in her Lauderdale Lakes apartment building by a man who then fled, according to Broward sheriff's detectives.
A week after the incident, Loraine Bain was still a bit rattled.
"I was really taken aback, but I felt I did have my composure," Bain said when reached by phone Wednesday. "I knew that if I acted normal I would try to keep him calm, [but] I was pretty frightened."
The knife-wielding man was loitering outside the elevator on the ground floor of the complex at 3099 NW 48th Ave.