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One woman attacks another with a chemical on her face. They are looking for the suspect, it happened in the New York subway

2022-12-03T00:31:51.630Z


The violent incident occurs just days after a 49-year-old man was attacked by a stranger with a knife, also on the subway, in Manhattan. The police spread images of suspicious people to try to find them.


A 21-year-old woman was attacked on the New York subway early Friday by a person who threw a chemical in her face as she was on her way to work at a Brooklyn hospital, police said.

The attack comes just days after a 49-year-old man was also attacked on a train in Manhattan by an unknown man who suddenly approached him and slashed his face with a razor.

The incident occurred Tuesday as the northbound 2 train was approaching the 72nd Street-Broadway subway station, police said.

The victim is in stable condition. 

The New York police released security and video footage of the two people suspected of these violent attacks, who had not yet been identified or detained as of Friday afternoon.

The incidents come to light amid a heated debate in the city over the security of the transportation system, and the measures taken in recent months to reduce the number of violent incidents.

In October, a Latino was killed when he fell to the rails during a fight over a cell phone.

A few weeks ago, the subway made headlines again when a Latina worker suffered a brutal beating while she was cleaning.

Attack on the way to the hospital 

The young woman attacked this Friday was attacked around 1 in the morning by what would be a stranger when she was going to her job as a health assistant in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, police said. 

The young woman would have first noticed the alleged attacker when the train passed the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station, where she would have been seen screaming and cursing, a senior police officer told NBC News New York.

Later, the suspect would have followed the young woman when he got off the subway line 2 at the Winthrop stop and began to argue with her on the platform.

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The official said that at one point the victim began recording a video on his cell phone out of fear that something would happen.

When he walked up the stairs to leave the station, her suspect went after her and threw liquid in her face.

Afterwards, she immediately fled the scene and as of Friday afternoon she still had not been located. 

Police are searching for a suspect in the violent attack at a Brooklyn subway station. Police / NBC News New York

Authorities circulated some of the images of the suspect's face, estimated to be between 20 and 30 years old, hours later in hopes of being able to identify her.

The video captured by a cell phone also appears to show what is a container or container in the right hand of the suspect just before the attack, authorities said.

The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital, where she works.

There she was treated for burn wounds on the left side of her face, she told herself.

Later, she was transferred to Jacobi Medical Center, in the Bronx, in critical but stable condition.

Police could not immediately determine what liquid she was attacked with. 

More or less crime in the subway?

According to the latest available statistics from the NYPD, the city's public transportation gun crime was up more than 33% at the end of November, compared to the same period last year.

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However, the executive director of the MTA, Janno Lieber, took another look at the data: he assured that there is not a wave of crimes, but on the contrary, that in the last 28 days incidents have decreased, compared to previous months.

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“In the month of November, this is important, we're actually down 13%,” Lieber said, referring to crime on the city's subway, on Spectrum News NY1's “Inside City Hall.”

The truth is that control activity and complaints have increased in the last year.

The NYPD has issued more than 100,000 citations so far this year (more than 320 a day) for fare evasion and other violations, a 54% increase from last year, according to the MTA.

Additionally, arrests increased by 93%.

Source: telemundo

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