A rock-wielding menace bashed a straphanger within the head throughout a random assault inside a Manhattan subway station Wednesday afternoon, in response to police and sources.
The 56-year-old man was strolling inside 14th Road and Eighth Avenue station in Chelsea on the mezzanine degree when a brute got here out of nowhere and whacked him a number of instances within the head with a rock round 12:30 p.m., cops mentioned.
“He took a superb shot to the top,” a building employee who witnessed the unhinged assault instructed The Put up.
The attacker then ran out the station, in response to police and the witness.
The injured sufferer, who suffered lacerations to his head, was taken by medics to NYC Well being + Hospitals/Bellevue, the place he was listed in steady situation.
Police mentioned the perp was nonetheless on the unfastened Wednesday afternoon.
The underground mayhem got here hours after a 54-year-old man was stabbed to dying on a platform contained in the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station Tuesday night time round 11:20 p.m., cops mentioned.
Moments earlier than the bloodshed, the sufferer fought together with his attacker on board a southbound N practice, in response to sources.
His assailant had not been captured as of Wednesday afternoon.
Extra reporting by Joe Marino and Amanda Woods
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