MORRIS HEIGHTS, Bronx (WABC) — A man is under arrest after police suspect he is responsible for randomly attacking two women and a teenager hours apart on Wednesday morning.
Jeremiah White, 23, was arrested on multiple charges of assault after the women were punched or hit with a metal pipe.
A 46-year-old woman on her way to work was attacked with a metal pipe and punched in the face near 176th Street and University Avenue just after 5:30 a.m.
Virginia Alvarez said Thursday she is still stunned that she was attacked. She said her attacker was saying things to her that didn’t make sense.
“He goes, ‘you kill my mother,’ he punched me right in the face and I fell to the floor, and he just kept punching and punching,” she said.
Alvarez said he got a pipe and kept hitting her before a driver stopped to help.
She was taken to the hospital and treated for fractures to her face, lacerations on her head, broken fingers and more.
Police say White then headed to the Morrisania neighborhood and hit a 15-year-old girl in the back of the head with a metal pipe about two hours later on Louis Nine Boulevard. She was taken to the hospital and was said to be stable.
Police found a metal pipe at the scene.
Then just before 10 a.m., police say he punched a 54-year-old woman in the face on Franklin Avenue before he was arrested. She refused medical attention.
According to officials, White was out on supervised release despite being charged with attacking two other women in the Bronx in the past month including a 17-year-old girl a 33-year-old woman.
“Why would you put him back in the street if you know he’s a danger,” Alvarez said.
Alvarez cares for others for a living. She’s a certified nurse’s aide, but now can’t work for a while. She said what she would tell a patient suffering like she is.
“They got to stay strong and be positive…make sure their family has got their back,” she said. “My family got my back.”
Officials say White has at least four prior arrests.
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