What is he laughing about?
A suspected serial attacker appeared grinning and goofy in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday as a judge ordered him locked up for allegedly dousing three women and a man with boiling water in a series of incidents in Midtown. He smiled.
Larry Martin, 42, was charged in an indictment by Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Curtis J. Farber in connection with a frightening 90-minute spree that occurred on March 6 while the New Yorker was on his way to work. He denied admission and was ordered held without bail.
Martin, wearing an orange prison uniform, appeared to stare directly into the cameras of the assembled photographers as he was charged with four counts each of second-degree assault and attempted first-degree assault. He smiled as if he was showing off.
In the first act of violence, Martin lunged at a man at East 44th Street and Lexington Avenue around 7:10 a.m. and threw a flaming liquid at the back of his head, causing burns to his neck, according to court documents. It is said that he was inflicted.
By about 7:45 a.m., Martin had moved further west, spitting scalding fluid into the side of a 49-year-old woman’s face at the corner of Sixth Avenue and West 56th Street, causing burns and hearing loss. police and police said. the prosecutor said.
The man then traveled south and, at about 8:15 a.m., struck a 45-year-old woman in the cup in the side of her face as she exited the Times Square subway station on the southeast corner of 7th Avenue and West 42nd Street. I poured out the squeezing liquid. , according to authorities.
Finally, he poured boiling water on the chest and hands of a 27-year-old woman around 8:40 a.m. at West 35th Street and Eighth Avenue, officials said.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Thursday that “Larry Martin is accused of assaulting four randomly selected people as they were walking in Midtown within a two-hour period.”
“My thoughts are with the victims who are recovering from serious injuries. No one should have to worry about their safety when walking through Manhattan.”
Police said Martin had been previously arrested for assaulting a 70-year-old man in Queens in August 2021.
He was arrested in 2022 in connection with that crime.
