March 30, 2021- 8:05 p.m
NYPD Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information that leads to the arrest of the perpetrator who was seen attacking an Asian woman outside an apartment building in Manhattan in broad daylight on Monday.
Crime Stoppers tweeted about the reward and posters were seen up and down West 43rd Street in Hell’s Kitchen on Tuesday near the scene of the brutal attack.
A police source had confirmed to Fox News earlier Tuesday that the suspect was still on the loose.
The video of the attack Monday appears to show the woman getting kicked in the stomach and subsequently falling.
The assailant can be seen pummeling her while she is on the ground, kicking her in the head and body. A police source confirmed to Fox News that the suspect yelled at the victim, “F— you, you don’t belong here.”
The suspect also allegedly brandished a weapon that looked like a metal object after attacking the woman, a witness told Fox News on Tuesday.
A witness who was working construction outside the coffee shop across the street at the time told Fox News that the man pulled out “something metal” that “looked like a knife” after he attacked the woman.
“The guy was yelling, I don’t know why. She didn’t do nothing to him,” Tony, who asked to be identified only by his first name, said.
“We were working here, heard screaming,” he said outside Grind coffee shop, just feet away from where the attack took place. “I don’t know why he went nuts.
“Tony told Fox News another man “ran out from the park to help” the woman following the attack, but then “that guy, the big guy” – whom Tony described as 6-foot-5 – pulled out what “looked like a knife.”
A police source told Fox News that the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incident. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday directed the New York State Police Hate Crimes Task Force to investigate, as well.
The NYPD did not comment to Fox News about whether or not a weapon had been brandished during the attack.
