Police are looking for three men who attacked and robbed a 73-year-old woman in the Loris Hospital parking lot.
She was beaten, but her spirit wasn't.
She talked with NewsChannel 15 about what happened to her Wednesday night.
Rose Powell has spent a lot of time at Loris Hospital.
Her husband of 54 years had a heart attack, and she's been staying by his side.
Wednesday night about 9 o'clock, she went to get her cell phone out of her car when two men came up to her asking for change.
"So I reached down to get it, and he held his hand out and I put the money in his hand. From then on, everything went black. Someone had slipped up behind me - knocked me cold," Rose Powell told NewsChannel 15.
After her daughter realized Rose had been gone too long, she looked out the front windows of the hospital and saw her mother in the parking lot. Two men were beating her severely.
"I don't know what all they used, if they used their feet, their fists or what, but my head is messed up bad," said Rose.
It turns out there was a third man there, too. He had jumped into the driver's seat of Rose's car.
When her daughter began screaming, the three men took off in Rose's car.
Rose says the men chose her for a reason.
"They picked someone that was handicapped, with a car parked in a handicapped (spot). And I'm not ashamed to tell my age. I'm 73 and for three grown men, healthy, strong men to jump on an old lady like me and mess me up, I will go after them," Rose vowed.
She's helping police however she can in the investigation and says others should learn from what happened to her.
"No one could have helped for what these boys done. They're mean. That's what they wanted to do, but all I'm here for is to please warn people. Please, notice what's around you. I'm mean it can happen so fast."
Rose's car was found Thursday off Highway 66 in Horry County.
Loris Hospital turned surveillance video of the incident over to police, but it has not been released.
Loris Police Chief Joseph Vaught says they've identified three people who may have been involved.
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