Anonymous donor boosts reward in attack of Deerfield Beach woman

$8,000 reward offered for information leading to an arrest

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. – An anonymous donor is offering an additional $5,000 reward for the arrest of the men who attacked a disabled woman at her home in Deerfield Beach during a robbery.

Broward County Crime Stoppers is offering $3,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprits.

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Broward Sheriff's Office deputies said the intruders were wearing hooded sweatshirts, gloves and Halloween masks when they walked into the woman's home through a sliding-glass door on May 15 and demanded jewelry and credit cards.

Deborah Plasse told Local 10 News that the intruders killed two of her kittens and threatened to hurt her 8-month-old dog.

"When they threatened to kill him I said, 'Over my dead body,' and that's when I took my walker and threw it at him," Plasse said.

Plasse said the men threw her to the floor, cut her face and body with glass and spray-painted her body.

They left with a safe containing her medication and two dead kittens in a paper bag.

One of her attackers spoke proper English, while the other had a Hispanic accent, Plasse told detectives.

She said another man waited outside.

Plasse was taken to North Broward Health to be treated for her injuries.

Anyone with information about the attack is asked to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.

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