The daughter of a Waikiki woman who died Wednesday after a violent purse-snatching incident made a plea for those responsible to turn themselves in.

"I just want that person to put themselves in my shoes," said Jennifer Feathers, 31, who came from Oklahoma to be with her mother after the Feb. 2 attack. "I lost my mom. I lost my best friend.

"I know they didn’t mean to do this to my mom," she said.

Jullie Stephenson, 52, died Wednesday morning shortly after midnight at Straub Clinic & Hospital. She had been in the hospital’s intensive care unit since she was injured in a purse-snatching outside her Waikiki condo.

Detectives have reclassified the case from robbery to homicide. No suspects have been identified, police said Wednesday, adding that surveillance videos from the area will be reviewed.

On Friday, doctors took Stephenson off a ventilator because of complications, Feathers said. On Tuesday, her two sons, Christopher and Robert, arrived from Oklahoma.

"She kind of just went out on her own," Feathers said. "She held on until they got here.They got to see her, then she let go."

Stephenson was robbed in front of her condominium, the Tradewinds, at 1720 Ala Moana Blvd., police said.

Family said she was returning home from work at Assaggio restaurant in Ala Moana Center at about 9:20 p.m. when a person shoved her down from behind and grabbed her purse. Stephenson broke her hip in the fall and started bleeding internally. Doctors placed her in a coma to protect her organs from further damage.

Her condition improved briefly, but then doctors found blood in her lungs and her kidneys and liver began deteriorating, family members said. Doctors gave her more than 40 blood transfusions.

Stephenson’s longtime friend Andy Umi Sexton, who serves as kahu or head pastor of the Native Hawaiian Church, conducted her last rites. "She just looked like she was tired and she wanted to sleep," he said.

Sexton, whose ministry feeds the homeless in Waikiki, said Stephenson brought him plates of food every other day to help the effort.

"She’s a phenomenal cook," he said, adding that she also loved music and sailing. "It’s an atrocity that something like this can happen to an innocent, quiet person like her."

On Sunday, more than 200 people showed up at a fundraiser for Stephenson at Harbor Pub, packing the Waikiki bar, said server Sarah Castle. Stephenson,a Kaiser High School graduate, had once been employed as a representative for Paradise Beverages and therefore knew many people in the hospitality industry, Castle said.

"She just kept her roots close and tight to this neighborhood," she said. "She was a part of our community for so long."

Siri Ky, owner of Assaggio, said Stephenson was the most popular bartender at the restaurant, where she had worked for more than 12 years.

"People come here because of her," Ky said.

Some Tradewinds residents have complained of increased crime in the area, but Honolulu Police Department spokeswoman Michelle Yu said there haven’t been any recent incidents.

Stephenson is survived by three children and four grandchildren.

Services are set for 1 p.m. Saturday at Calvary by the Sea on Kalanianaole Highway. After the services, family members plan to scatter Stephenson’s ashes in the ocean.