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UPPER DARBY, Pa. -- A homeless man is being hailed as a hero after chasing down an alleged purse snatcher, tackling him and holding him down until police arrived.
Loretta Ferraro, 68, was in the Chef's Spot restaurant waiting for a friend when she said a man tried to grab the handbag out of her lap. The two engaged in a tug-of-war, but the man prevailed and bolted out the door.
The suspect ended up fleeing right past a homeless shelter where Kevin Runkle had just stepped outside to smoke a cigarette. Runkle said he noticed the commotion and took off after the man, identified by police as Hyo Lee.
"Finally he stopped, shoved the purse up under his shirt and he turned around to face me," Runkle, 38, said Thursday. "He punched me twice in the face -- not that hard, because you know, I stayed standing. ... So I hit him and wrestled him to the ground, and then I held him."
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