Police are looking for a suspect they say assaulted an 86-year-old woman on the Upper East Side last weekend.
NYPD officials have issued an alert about an incident of elderly assault which took place on the Upper East Side last weekend. Police are hoping someone from the general public will be able to assist them in identifying and locating the wanted individual.
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According to the police report, the assault occurred on Sunday, March 23 at about 1:25 p.m. inside the Morton Williams supermarket at 1066 Third Avenue (between 63rd and 64th streets), when an 86-year-old woman was approached by an unidentified suspect. The assailant then “pushed the victim from behind, causing [her] to fall to the ground.” She sustained injuries to her left eye and back, with multiple teeth also reported broken. EMS transported her to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in stable condition, while the suspect escaped on foot, running south down Third Avenue.
Police describe the suspect as “a male with a dark complexion [who] was last seen wearing a gray and burgundy jacket, a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt, gray sweatpants and gray shoes.”
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Anyone with relevant information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website or by sending a direct message to @NYPDTips on Twitter. All calls are strictly confidential.
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Well, hey, everybody knows you’re taking your life in your hands when you dare step foot in a supermarket in the middle of the afternoon. Enough is enough. Just avoid the usual suspects until your idiot neighbors quit voting blue.
So not helpful
At least we got the pic from NYPD quicker this time.
Yeah, the pic is definitely helpful. Not at all what I was expecting.