A would-be chain thief slashed a feminine straphanger with a razor through the Tuesday night rush within the Bronx – a few week after a pink coat-wearing attacker choked a teen woman on board a Brooklyn practice, cops stated.
The sufferer was using a northbound 2 practice passing via the Pelham Parkway station round 5:30 p.m. when the perp – a stranger – inserted herself in a dialog the sufferer was having and sparked a battle, authorities and sources stated.
The perp then minimize the sufferer with a razor and tried however did not seize her chain, authorities stated.
The suspect, believed to be in her 30s, fled after the assault, police stated.
In a separate, unrelated assault final week, a feminine stranger choked a 13-year-old woman throughout a conflict on board a Brooklyn practice through the morning rush, cops stated.
The pink coat-wearing attacker received into an argument with the younger teen on board a G practice at Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg round 7:50 a.m. Nov. 17, authorities stated.
The fired-up fiend then grabbed the woman’s throat and squeezed, making it onerous for her to breathe, police stated.
The heartless assailant, proven in a surveillance picture launched by the NYPD late Tuesday, fled out of the practice and cops are nonetheless trying to monitor her down, police stated.
The teenager was handled on the scene for accidents to her neck, cops stated.
Final week’s subway mayhem additionally included a wild, caught-on-video outburst during which Tyquan Manassa, 28, allegedly knifed two males on the southbound platform of the E and F practice on the Union Turnpike station in Kew Gardens Nov. 19, cops stated.
And on Nov. 16, Aaron Nett, 33, allegedly shoved a very good Samaritan right into a transferring Harlem practice – breaking her again – when she tried to interrupt up a battle contained in the one hundred and thirty fifth Road 2 and three practice station, prosecutors and sources stated.
Nonetheless, assaults have seen a slight dip within the metropolis’s transit system thus far this 12 months, in accordance with the newest NYPD information, up to date Sunday.
A complete of 513 felony assaults have been reported on the rails, 4 fewer than the 517 from final 12 months, the statistics present.
Misdemeanor assaults have additionally fallen to 1,310 from final 12 months’s 1,392, in accordance with the info.
