A man was attacked brutally with a hammer, after he accidentally bumped into another person, in a Manhattan subway station on Tuesday night.
This is the second attack in the past two months that contained a hammer for a weapon. The first attack was in February, when Nina Rothschild was horrifically struck by a man named William Blount and robbed.
This time an argument broke out between the 29-year old victim and a male suspect, after the two bumped into each other on the platform of the 14th Street 1/2/3 line at about 9:15 p.m., police reported.
The attacker then grabbed a hammer out of his bag and struck the victim. The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital after the altercation and sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
The assailant was luckily caught on video during the attack. He was wearing a wig and a red jacket with the letter “B” on it. It showed him reaching into a handbag and pulling out a hammer at the station.
“Why you hit me?” the attacker yells, while lunging at the victim. “Why the f—k you hit me?”
The suspect then hits the victim once in the head with the hammer as someone off-camera screams, “No!”
The suspect fled and was still being sought early Wednesday.
The victim is Asian, though it was unclear whether the attack was a hate crime as of Wednesday morning. However, the Hate Crimes Task Force has been notified of the incident, according to reports from the police.
New York City’s subway system was the scene of at least one other unnerving incident Tuesday night.
At about 5 p.m., a man riding on a southbound A train was arrested after menacing fellow passengers with a knife, police said.
Good Samaritans aboard the train stepped in and held the suspect, later identified as Joaquin Rodriguez, 38,
During the same incident, he displayed a knife as he argued with a man, cops said.
The relationship between the male and female victims, if any, was unclear Wednesday.
He was charged with assault and menacing, police said.
as the train arrived at the 59th Street/Columbus Circle station.
Transit police at the station then arrested Rodriguez, of Union City, NJ, who was charged with reckless endangerment, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.
Nobody aboard the train was injured.
Rodriguez was previously busted around 5:20 p.m. Feb. 11 for allegedly shoving a 68-year-old woman at random as she left a building on Ninth Avenue near West 58th Street.
Good old new york. Let the Democrats keep running the state, pretty soon new York will not exist.
13% of the population but commit over 80% of the crimes at it again.
time to make those assault weapon hammers illegal
MY. MY. MY I’d bet this Hammer swinger is AAP, Either Destroying AMERICA, burning down businesses & Looting or beating innocent people – & these CRIMINALS SUE !! This is the new PUPPET-IN-CHIEF AMERICA !!
B- ROKEN. B-URNING & B-urying AMERICA one day at a time
How many victims will the liberal authorities sacrifice on their altars of stupidity until they will finally deal firmly with the perps?
Liberal authorities “forget” Ben Franklin’s adage that those who’d sacrifice essential liberties for temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security. Then when the Marxist thugs have “control” the State will step in with draconian measures. Law abiding people will find out what a police state is really like, those that survive at least.
We conservative constitutionalists must remember that ANTIS and BLM are nothing but the vanguard of the coming tyrannical socialist state. They’re the sturmabteilung of the Progressive Left.
I find it interesting that you do not hesitate to mention the race of the Asian victim and the race of another or by name Rodriguez I would assume he’s hispanic, but you didn’t dare mention the race of the attacker of the Asian victim! Although race doesn’t have a thing to do with this just because of a person’s certain particular race doesn’t mean that everybody has same color would do something like this but the media is responsible for this kind of thing to a point this politically correct s*** is ruining our country.
The headline said a man was “attacked by” a hammer. I was interested in reading how a tool from a hardware store came to life and went on a rampage. Obviously only the government should be allowed to carry hand tools.
I can see the headlines now !!! We the people of NY absolutely demand that Hammer’s of any kind, type, length, width, heavyiness, lightiness be made ILLEAGLE NOW……before we all become the victim of the senseless hammer assaults that are now plaguing our City. Someone please inform AOC she needs to jump on this demand now ……the morons’ seem to love her and listen to her pleas……!!!! Oh damn can hardly control my laughter to complete this narrative.