A masked stranger slashed a 29-year-old girl a number of occasions on board a Decrease Manhattan practice late Wednesday when she refused at hand 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 via the Wall Road station round 11:10 p.m. Wednesday, in keeping with cops and legislation 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 cellular 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 exhibits the menace — who had not been caught by Thursday afternoon — strolling via the practice automotive carrying the masks, a navy blue hoodie, black pants and black footwear.
A photograph exhibits 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 aspect of the girl’s again for no obvious cause round 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, in keeping with authorities and sources.
She was hospitalized in secure situation, police mentioned.
Rivera was captured by the Manhattan Theft Squad Tuesday evening 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 during 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.
