A masked stranger slashed a 29-year-old girl a number of occasions on board a Decrease Manhattan practice late Wednesday when she refused handy him her bag, authorities and sources mentioned.
The surgical mask-wearing mugger demanded the sufferer’s bag on board a northbound No. 3 practice passing by means of the Wall Road station round 11:10 p.m. Wednesday, in response to cops and regulation enforcement sources.
When she refused to surrender her bag, the brute flashed a knife and slashed the sufferer on her left arm and elbow, each palms and again, police mentioned.
He then snatched her mobile phone and took off, authorities mentioned.
The sufferer was taken to Bellevue Hospital, the place she was listed in secure situation.
Footage launched by the NYPD reveals the menace — who had not been caught by Thursday afternoon — strolling by means of the practice automotive sporting the masks, a navy blue hoodie, black pants and black footwear.
A photograph reveals the suspect — believed to be in his 20s, standing about 5-foot-11 and described as having a darkish complexion and slim construct — carrying a partly open grey backpack.
The violent theft got here a day after one other stranger stabbed a 25-year-old girl in an unprovoked assault within the stairwell of the twenty third Road C and E practice station in Chelsea, authorities mentioned.
The maniac – later recognized as 21-year-old Carlos Rivera – plunged what seemed to be a knife into the left facet of the girl’s again for no obvious purpose round 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, in response to authorities and sources.
She was hospitalized in secure situation, police mentioned.
Rivera was captured by the Manhattan Theft Squad Tuesday night time and was charged with tried homicide, in addition to a number of counts of assault, cops mentioned.
He has two prior arrests – one for allegedly stealing males’s clothes in Queens on June 24 – and a Brooklyn bust from Could 10 by which cops say he snatched a telephone from somebody’s pocket.
The pair of disturbing subway incidents adopted what NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch described as “the most secure July in our subway system in recorded historical past,” excluding the COVID interval in 2020 and 2021, when ridership was low.
