78-year-old woman foils armed robbery.

From Newsday:

A 78-year-old Huntington woman and her daughter resisted an armed robbery Tuesday in East Northport, police said, resulting in the arrest of a man for that and two other armed robberies.

[...] Susan Jannace, 49, of Elwood, said she was sitting in her car with her mother at the Huntington Square Mall when a man approached about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

"We were just talking for a minute, and all of a sudden someone opens my driver's door and this man looks in and says, 'Give me your money' and points a gun at me," said Jannace, a lawyer. "I grabbed the gun, trying to get it out of his hand...."