One of two armed robbers is still at large after attempting to rob an elderly woman, who fought back vehemently, of her purse outside a McDonald’s on Pickett Road yesterday at 4 p.m.
Josh Auerbach, age 40, of Annandale, was arrested after pointing a handgun at Fairfax resident Delia Moss, age 83, while his partner tried to steal her handbag. Sergeant D’Andre Shields of the Fairfax Police Department said that Moss swung her purse at the robber’s hand and knocked the gun into the bushes. The second robber was not apprehended and is described as a white male wearing a pink sweater, in his mid-30s with a buzz cut, short gray beard and glasses.