Austin police are looking for a man accused of trying to rob a woman in her 60s earlier this month in East Austin.
The woman was sitting at a bench at a shopping center near the intersection of the northbound frontage road of Interstate 35 and Reinli Street around 3:30 p.m on Feb. 7, when a man tried to grab her purse, police said.
The man pulled the woman off the bench, causing her to fall to the ground as she tried to fight back, authorities said. Police said the man drove away from the scene in a silver Ford sedan after two employees of a nearby store came to help the woman.
Some in the city like Thea Clay, however, were still without electricity heading into Friday evening.
Clay and her family live in a condo in a four-unit building near the intersection of Southridge Drive and Bannister Lane in South Austin. While most of the neighboring apartment complexes have gotten their power restored, Clay around 1 p.m. Friday was still wearing her multiple layers of clothes and trying to keep warm.
She lost power on Monday at 2 a.m. It flickered on and off until 4 a.m., when it went away for good. It finally returned Friday evening, after almost 115 hours without electricity.