The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is looking for a man who targeted a woman and left her with a fractured spine on the Manhattan-bound E train at the end of last month.
In order to catch the man, the NYPD has released footage of him as well as details of the incident, in the hope that members of the public might help with tracking him down. The identity of the victim or of the woman who was with her at the time of the attack have not been made public.
According to the police, the man was on the train on November 30, when he noticed one woman giving the victim a peck on the cheek, the New York Post reports. He decided the two must be lesbians and he started giving them a piece of his mind, being verbally aggressive to the point where the 2 women realized they were safer if they removed themselves from his presence.
They tried to walk away, but he followed them and punched the victim in the back of the head. This sent her face down on the subway floor, hitting her head and fracturing her spine. “Kiss her again, you d–e!” the suspect yelled at his victim, before getting off the train at Forest Hills.
The two women eventually made it off the train, and the victim was rushed to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with a fractured spine.
“The suspect is about 5-foot-11, weighs about 220 pounds and is between 50 and 60 years old, police said,” AMNewYork reports. “The NYPD released a video of the man confronting the woman aboard the train.”
The video is available at the link: it doesn’t have audio, but it offers a very good look at the suspect. It also leaves no doubt that the man was verbally aggressive to the woman filming him, before the physical altercation.
According to the police, the man was on the train on November 30, when he noticed one woman giving the victim a peck on the cheek, the New York Post reports. He decided the two must be lesbians and he started giving them a piece of his mind, being verbally aggressive to the point where the 2 women realized they were safer if they removed themselves from his presence.
They tried to walk away, but he followed them and punched the victim in the back of the head. This sent her face down on the subway floor, hitting her head and fracturing her spine. “Kiss her again, you d–e!” the suspect yelled at his victim, before getting off the train at Forest Hills.
The two women eventually made it off the train, and the victim was rushed to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with a fractured spine.
“The suspect is about 5-foot-11, weighs about 220 pounds and is between 50 and 60 years old, police said,” AMNewYork reports. “The NYPD released a video of the man confronting the woman aboard the train.”
The video is available at the link: it doesn’t have audio, but it offers a very good look at the suspect. It also leaves no doubt that the man was verbally aggressive to the woman filming him, before the physical altercation.