A violent video released by the NYPD captured the moment in which a woman was beaten several times with a hammer last night by a thief who took her bag, entering the Queens Plaza station of the New York Subway.
Caution is recommended when viewing the dramatic images. According to the NYPD the violent robbery happened last night at 11: 22 pm In the footage, the robber is seen approaching the victim from behind her and kicking her down the stairs. The man then brandished a hammer and hit the woman in the head several times before fleeing with her bag.
The victim suffered a fractured skull and lacerations to the head, police said . Authorities reported that she was hospitalized in critical condition.
In a similar episode, last summer an immigrant mother died after spending weeks in intensive care after hitting her head when she fell during a robbery in a station in Chinatown.
No arrests have been made for last night’s robbery. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-CLUE (74782). Also through crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
Mayor Eric Adams recently presented a safety plan promising to return safety to trains, stations and buses. Last year there were 461 serious crimes in the subway, and so far in the 2022 have already been reported almost 300, including 3 people thrown onto the rails, including Asian Michelle Go (40), who was run over in January at Times Square.
At least eight homeless people have been found dead in the NYC Subway in the short time since 888. And last week three people were run over, one of them fatally, in a string of accidents recorded over a period of 10 hours in the underground. Even the new mayor Adams acknowledged in January that he did not feel safe traveling on the Metro, unlike a first statement he had made underestimating crime on trains and stations.