Woman, 58, dies after being pulled down NYC subway stairs as thief tried to steal her son’s backpack

A HORROR mugging has left a 58-year-old mother dead after a robber pulled her down a set of subway stairs in New York City, leaving the woman in a 11-day coma before her untimely death.

Than Than Htwe was walking home with her son, Kyaw Zaw Hein, in Manhattan's Chinatown on July 17 when a thief stole her son's backpack and pulled her down the stairs of a subway platform on Canal St.

She was left in a coma for 11 days since her attack, and was pronounced dead on Tuesday night.

Her son, Hein, said the family is in mourning after his mother's passing, and they are hoping the police quickly find the suspect, identified by police as David Robinson, 52, who did this to their loved one.

"The doctors told us that the trauma to her head was so severe that she won’t be able to wake up," Hein said through a translator.

Htwe and Hein were walking off the Canal St. N stop platform on Saturday, July 17 when a man seen on video stole Hein's backpack, forcing him down the stairs.

As Hein reached out for help, he took his mother down with him.

“An update on her condition, our mother/wife won’t make it out of this," Hein wrote on a GoFundMe, which has raised close to $50,000 before her family stopped collecting donations.

"So we have decided to donate her organs for those who are in need. I want to say thank you again to all the people who supported us through this very hard time," the family wrote.

"If you know anything about the guy who did this to her. Please let the police know! He needs to pay justice for what has been done!! Thank you again."

Hein ended up telling CBS that he was Htwe's only child.

"There was a lot of blood," he recalled after the fall.

"She’s a very good woman. She’s very responsible," said Htwe's husband, Myint Shein.

Htwe, a seamstress, will have her organs donated for those in need of transplants.

Both her son and husband said they fear for their lives given the increase in hate-related crimes and hope police or politicians can find her attacker.