Three males – two of them senior residents – have been damage in a nine-hour burst of unprovoked violence within the metropolis’s subway system early Tuesday, cops mentioned.
The mayhem started round 12:25 a.m. when an unhinged man bashed a 32-year-old straphanger within the head with a metallic pole on board a northbound A prepare on the Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard in Queens, authorities mentioned.
The blow left the sufferer with a visual minimize on the left facet of his neck, however he refused medical consideration on the scene.
The alleged attacker, Wesley Saint-Vil, 27, was arrested about 5 minutes later and charged with felony assault, cops mentioned.
Saint-Vil has 9 prior arrests, although all however three of them are sealed, authorities mentioned.
The latest bust was for petit larceny in August in Higher Manhattan, police mentioned.
Earlier than that, Borden – who lives in a Queens housing facility for homeless veterans – allegedly slugged a 61-year-old man who was smoking exterior the constructing in an unprovoked assault, cops mentioned.
In an unrelated assault simply after 6 a.m., a stranger repeatedly punched and kicked a 71-year-old man on the southbound A prepare platform at one hundred and seventy fifth Avenue, police mentioned.
The beatdown left the senior with a number of cuts on his head and nostril, police mentioned.
He was taken to Harlem Hospital, the place he was listed in secure situation, cops mentioned.
The alleged assailant, who had a darkish complexion and was final seen carrying a navy blue sweatshirt, grey pants and black backpack, fled on an A prepare, authorities mentioned.
The violence continued in the course of the morning rush hour, when a 65-year-old man was punched by a stranger on board a southbound L prepare on the Third Avenue station within the East Village.
The sufferer was using the prepare when he requested one other commuter – who was standing over him – to maneuver again, police mentioned.
However the cussed rider refused, earlier than stepping on the seated straphanger’s foot and difficult him to a bodily battle, police mentioned.
When the sufferer stood up, the brute punched him behind the pinnacle, leaving him with a big bump, cops mentioned.
The sufferer obtained off the prepare and was handled on the scene by EMS employees, police mentioned.
The attacker – described as a person in his 30s carrying a grey sweater with a gold chain – stayed on board and has not been caught.
Assaults throughout the metropolis’s transit system have barely spiked up to now this yr, with 476 assaults reported on the rails via Sunday, in keeping with the most recent NYPD knowledge.
The NYPD tallied a complete of 462 assaults throughout the metropolis’s transit system throughout the identical interval final yr.
