Crime & Safety
70-Year-Old Man Punched By Stranger On Subway, NYPD Says
The man was punched in the face aboard a Manhattan-bound E train, police say.
JAMAICA, QUEENS -- Cops are searching for the person who punched a 70-year-old man in the face on a subway in Queens.
The elderly man was riding a Manhattan-bound E train on the morning of Dec. 16 when he was punched in the face during a stop inside the Sutphin Boulevard subway station in Jamaica, police said.
NYPD released surveillance photos on Thursday of the suspect, who cops described as a man in his late 20s standing at approximately 5'8" with an injury to his right eye.
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Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
Lead photo via NYPD.
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