A blond-haired man went on an apparent hate-crime spree in Manhattan earlier this week, assaulting seven Asian women over a two-hour span, cops said Wednesday.
The 29-year-old creep was picked up Wednesday at the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue in connection to the alleged assaults, police sources said.
His sick spree began around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, when he allegedly decked a 57-year-old woman near Madison Avenue and East 30th Street, a few blocks from the Empire State Building, cops said.
He allegedly struck again 10 minutes later at Fifth Avenue and East 30th Street, hitting a 25-year-old woman in the face and the back of her arm with a closed fist.
He encountered his third victim five minutes later at 6:45 p.m. several blocks away at Park Avenue South and East 23rd Street, a block from Madison Square Park.
This time, he hit a 21-year-old woman in the face with a closed fist, cops said. She suffered a cut to her lip.
Five minutes later, at 6:50 p.m., he hit a 25-year-old woman in the face with a closed fist at Irving Place and East 17th Street in Gramercy, also causing a cut to her lip, cops said.
His next victim was a 19-year-old woman, whom he elbowed in the face at Union Square East and East 17th Street at 7:05 p.m., and then he struck a 25-year-old woman at East Houston and Mott Street 20 minutes later, according to cops.
His seventh and final attack happened around 8:37 near Broadway and East 8th Street, where he went up to a 20-year-old woman and shoved her to the ground.
In all of the incidents, there was no prior interaction between the attacker and his victims, cops said.
All of the victims, who are Asian, suffered minor injuries and some were treated at the hospital.
Sources said someone called the cops when they recognized the suspect, a Florida resident whose name wasn’t immediately released, by the wanted photo put out by the NYPD. He was wearing the same clothes shown in the photo.
The suspect was nabbed in the second-floor bathroom of the public library, sources said. Charges against him are pending.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
I hate to say it but somebody needs to put this dirt bag six feet under
First, put similar hurts on him. Then, lock him up with some Tong thugs.
Why would you hate to say it?
What in the hell has happened in our country this creep shouldn’t have made it past the first victim. To hell with waiting on the police what is the matter with you people. We have become so sick in our society with this work movement and it’s politically correct b******* that no one wants to be a male no one wants to be a man don’t get involved call the police my dying ass do something don’t stand there and watch this s***