A violent man punched a female pedestrian in the face as she stumbled out of a Union Square McDonald’s, police said, amid a surge in unprovoked attacks on women in the Big Apple.
Police say the 23-year-old victim was walking on Avenue of the Americas near West 14th Street around 10 a.m. on March 20 when the gunman came out of a fast food restaurant and struck her without warning. That’s what it means.
Surveillance video released by the NYPD late Tuesday shows the suspect fleeing southbound on Sixth Avenue after the attack.
The victim was taken to Lenox Health Greenwich Village Hospital, where he was treated for a nasal injury, police said.
The still-raging menace was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, brown pants and a blue jacket.
This unprovoked assault comes amid a spate of disturbing incidents in which women are randomly beaten while walking on the street.
Victims include Harry Kate, an influencer with 1.1 million followers on TikTok, who posted a video last week saying she was assaulted so severely that she lost consciousness.
Authorities announced that Skiboky Sutra, 40, a repeat offender with an extensive criminal record, was arrested in connection with Sucker Punch.
Last week, in another incident of random assault, Brooklyn school bus aide Dulce Pichardo, 57, was randomly assaulted on her way home from work in Crown Heights, leaving her with a broken jaw and a missing tooth. Police said he was brutally assaulted and had several sticks pulled out. He said.
Franz Judy, 33, who has repeated similar attacks with a sucker punch and has a long history of mental illness, is charged with third-degree assault, attempted assault and first-degree assault in connection with the attack, according to a criminal complaint. He was charged with misdemeanor harassment. .
Despite the victim’s serious injuries, Jeudy was released on supervised release by a Brooklyn judge because the crime was not eligible for bail.
