For four years, Kim Braxton has marked the approach of Valentine’s Day the same way — standing at a busy east side intersection in Detroit, arranging gift baskets wrapped in red cellophane and hoping passing drivers would stop for a last-minute surprise.

This week, that routine was interrupted by violence.

Braxton said she was working her regular corner at Houston Whittier Street and Gratiot Avenue when three men approached her booth and began asking about prices. What started as a conversation quickly spiraled.

According to Braxton’s account, the men attacked her, knocking her to the ground before grabbing the baskets she had left to sell and fleeing the scene.

The longtime Detroit entrepreneur later posted a video to Facebook, still visibly shaken but resolute. She said she has operated at that same intersection every February for the past four years without incident. The robbery, she said, caught her completely off guard.

Despite the assault and the loss of her merchandise, Braxton made clear she doesn’t plan to walk away. In the video, she insisted the attack would not stop her from returning to sell her Valentine’s baskets.

For Braxton, the episode was more than a theft — it was a violation of a space that had become part of her seasonal livelihood. But if her message online was any indication, she intends to be back on that corner, baskets in hand, when the next February rolls around.