{"id":146678,"date":"2026-02-26T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146678\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:49:07","slug":"trench-coat-wearing-maniac-randomly-punches-3-women-walking-down-nyc-street-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146678\/","title":{"rendered":"Trench coat-wearing maniac randomly punches 3 women walking down NYC street: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trench coat-wearing maniac <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/27\/us-news\/victims-of-random-punchings-in-nyc-blast-nypd-response\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">randomly punched<\/a> four women as they walked in Upper Manhattan last week, cops said Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/05\/us-news\/unhinged-man-28-busted-for-stabbing-stranger-during-heated-clash-in-nyc-subway-station-cops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unhinged man<\/a> stormed each victim \u2013 ages 52, 24, and two aged 35 \u2013 around 7 p.m. Feb. 12 at West 122nd Street and Broadway in Morningside Heights and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/25\/us-news\/nut-convicted-of-sucker-punching-tiktok-influencer-berating-jewish-couple-in-nyc-hate-crimes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slugged them in the face<\/a>, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.52293578;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38615108\" width=\"228\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/122-street-broadway-unidentified-individual-122279447.jpg\" alt=\"The attacker allegedly punched three women  \u2013 52, 24 and two 35-year-olds \u2013 around 7 p.m. Feb. 12 at West 122nd Street and Broadway in Morningside Heights, cops said.\" class=\"wp-image-38615108\"  \/>The attacker allegedly punched three women  \u2013 52, 24 and two 35-year-olds \u2013 around 7 p.m. Feb. 12 at West 122nd Street and Broadway in Morningside Heights, cops said. NYPD<\/p>\n<p>He then callously fled the scene, heading south on Broadway, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All of the women refused medical attention, except for one of the 35-year-olds, who was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The assailant did not know any of the victims and the attacks were unprovoked, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear whether the women were walking together or separately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.52293578;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38615122\" width=\"228\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/122-street-broadway-unidentified-individual-122279446.jpg\" alt=\"The attacker allegedly punched three women  \u2013 52, 24 and two 35-year-olds \u2013 around 7 p.m. Feb. 12 at West 122nd Street and Broadway in Morningside Heights, cops said.\" class=\"wp-image-38615122\"  \/>The maniac set upon his victims randomly and did not know any of them, cops said.  NYPD<\/p>\n<p>Footage and photos released by the NYPD show the lanky, bearded suspect wearing a black trench coat over a tan and gray jacket, blue jeans and white and red sneakers, carrying something in a plastic bag \u2013 and at one point flashing a grin as he strolls down the street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/__;!!F0Stn7g!GRsf265hgXAKeigWT2-8ygHwpwUjBdDgMrALi4YJhukVJpPEnAKyE6soll5yZpXX43Y5XPKJ0r7YwUOIqds$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trench coat-wearing maniac randomly punched four women as they walked in Upper Manhattan last week, cops said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[211,303,75,57,12255,9,56,63,65,64,2957,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-146678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-assault","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-morningside-heights","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-upper-manhattan","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}