Woman brutally assaulted in caught-on-camera robbery in Brooklyn speaks out

PROSPECT HEIGHTS -- Police are searching for three suspects wanted in a robbery and assault in Brooklyn, and they're hoping surveillance video will lead to arrests.

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The incident happened around 2:30 a.m. on October 2 on Franklin Avenue in the Crown Heights section.

"I really would like to know, why me, why did they have to do that? What possessed them to do that?" said Gwendolyn Reyes, the robbery victim.

Gwendolyn Reyes was beaten to a bloody pulp; with a broken nose and eyes so swollen she could barely see.

She was walking home from the subway late at night when she was confronted by three young men.

In the surveillance video, she never saw it coming. She was thrown against a storefront, and then pummeled like a punching bag. Pounded with fists over and over again.

She struggled to hold onto her purse, but it was no use. And the men escaped into the night with Gwendolyn Reyes' MetroCard, her cellphone, and exactly $5 in cash.

Gwendolyn's father says the attack has left his daughter badly shaken.

"And her jeans were covered in blood and her sneakers were covered in blood," said Jay Reyes, the victim's father.

When he rushed to the ambulance to see Gwendolyn, he was shocked.

"When I first saw her in the ambulance, I didn't even look at her face, she was crying, so I just hugged her for like two or three minutes," Jay Reyes said.

NYPD detectives released these photos of the suspects, convinced that someone will recognize them.

Gwendolyn is recovering slowly and may need plastic surgery. Jay Reyes appealed to Eyewitness News viewers for help.

"I hope somebody has the decency and they do the right thing. These guys should pay," Jay Reyes said.

"They need to get caught, I hope they get caught," Gwendolyn Reyes said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.