A girl is in essential situation after being violently robbed Thursday night time at a subway station in New York Metropolis.
The 57-year-old girl, who works as a researcher for town's Division of Well being, was kicked down the steps, then struck within the head with a hammer shortly earlier than midnight on the Queens Plaza station in Lengthy Island Metropolis, the New York Police Division mentioned in a press release. The assailant fled the scene after taking the girl's purse.
The assault displays a bigger development of crime on the subway or at subway stations. In 2021, New York Metropolis skilled its highest variety of public transit assaults since 1997. There have been 100 extra felonies dedicated within the subway system final yr than in 2020.
The girl is hospitalized at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Heart with a fractured cranium and lacerations to the pinnacle, the police assertion added. In keeping with WNBC-TV, two telephones, two rings, money and debit and bank cards had been inside her purse when the assailant took it.
The NYPD is asking for the general public's help in figuring out the one who carried out the assault, which was caught on video. Police mentioned the suspect is male and wore a black hooded coat, black masks, blue denims and black footwear. He was additionally carrying a cane.
When fleeing the scene, the person headed southbound on Queens Plaza South on foot, police added.
New York Metropolis's authorities is trying to deal with the difficulty of violence within the public transit system. Mayor Eric Adams mentioned that NYPD officers will perform visible inspections to find out any potential threats. Adams added that psychological well being professionals are responding to points within the subway system however mentioned they don't seem to be responding shortly sufficient.
Final week, Adams mentioned he would work with Governor Kathy Hochul to help extra housing and psychological well being companies in an effort to scale back the quantity of homeless folks utilizing the subway for shelter.
Following the loss of life of Michelle Go, who was killed final month after a homeless man allegedly pushed her onto tracks as a prepare was coming, extra folks have been calling for security measures comparable to platform boundaries. Although Adams has voiced his help for the concept, an official with the Metropolitan Transit Authority mentioned the boundaries could be tough to put in as a result of age and construction of the subway system, in addition to interference with ADA accessibility.
Police ask that anybody with data linked to Thursday night time's incident name NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip on-line by way of the CrimeStoppers web site.
Replace 2/25/22, 12:54 p.m. ET: This story was up to date with extra data.
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