A 16-year-old schoolgirl was punched in the face by a deranged woman in yet another random attack on the city’s beleaguered subway system, police said this week.
The teen was on her way to school on Jan. 7 when she was attacked by the rampaging brute just before 7 a.m. on a southbound platform of Manhattan’s Union Square subway station, according to an NYPD news release.
Although she was only 6 feet tall, the diminutive attacker hit the teenage girl so hard that she suffered a bruised eye, police said.
Police said the blow was unprovoked and random.
The girl was treated at the scene for her injuries.
The attacker fled to parts unknown and remains at large as of Tuesday.
Surveillance video released by the NYPD this week shows the suspect staggering across the subway platform with a large black suitcase in tow.
Police are asking the public for any information that could assist in the search for the suspect.
News of the teen’s unprovoked attack follows weeks of high-profile random attacks on the city’s subways, including the December murder of a homeless woman who was set on fire and burned.
On December 1 and 31, two men were also pushed onto the subway tracks in separate, unprovoked attacks. In the latter situation, the 45-year-old victim incredibly survived as the No. 1 train roared over him into London’s 18th Street station. Chelsea.
In response to violent crimes in the metro, Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to bring police into the system at night.
Starting Monday, NYPD officers began patrolling every overnight train along the A, G, J and L lines between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m.
Hours before the wave began Monday, a 39-year-old man was struck and slashed in the chest in what appeared to be an unprovoked attack on a D train, police said.
