Police are searching for a man they say randomly attacked seven Asian women during the span of three hours in Midtown and Lower Manhattan on Sunday evening. Police are considering the attacks as hate crimes.
Police are searching for a man accused of random attacks on Asian women.Police are searching for a man they say randomly attacked seven Asian women during the span of three hours in Midtown and Lower Manhattan on Sunday evening.
The man, who authorities describe as having a light complexion and blonde hair, was last seen wearing a light blue t-shirt, dark pants and a multicolored backpack, according to police. The attacks began at 6:30 p.m. Sunday evening on Madison Avenue and East 30th Street when he’s said to have punched a 57-year-old Asian woman in the face.
From there, police say, the man made his way south towards Chinatown attacking women randomly every ten or fifteen minutes, punching them in the face or arms, elbowing one woman in the face, and shoving another to the ground. Most of the victims were women aged 19 to 25 and all of them were of Asian descent, which is why police are considering the attacks hate crimes, though they said the man didn’t speak to the women before he attacked.
Hate crimes against Asian New Yorkers quadrupled last year with 131 documented attacks against Asians, up from 28 the year before,
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