{"id":80468,"date":"2025-12-24T20:51:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80468\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T20:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:51:32","slug":"woman-65-bashed-in-head-with-laptop-by-stranger-she-chatted-with-on-manhattan-subway-train-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/80468\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 65, bashed in head with laptop by stranger she chatted with on Manhattan subway train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 65-year-old woman was bashed repeatedly in the head with a laptop on a Manhattan subway train after she struck up a conversation with her attacker, leaving her hospitalized, cops said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The NYPD released photos of the suspect on the train in the Dec. 9 attack and asked the public\u2019s help identifying him and tracking him down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was chatting with the assailant on an uptown W train approaching the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Rector+St\/@40.7100236,-74.0195517,2822m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c25a10d8157b99:0xbf4b229b2b81529!8m2!3d40.707973!4d-74.013611!16zL20vMGNsamd6?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA3M0gBUAM%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rector St. station;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rector St. station<\/a> in the Financial District when he suddenly pulled a laptop from his backpack and bludgeoned her with it multiple times in the head about 10:20 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman staggered off the train at the Rector St. stop and medics took her to New York-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/lowermanhattan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Presbyterian Hospital Lower Manhattan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Presbyterian Hospital Lower Manhattan<\/a> in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her attacker got off the train at the Canal St. stop and has not been caught, cops said. He is described as heavyset and in his 30s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Crime Stoppers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 65-year-old woman was bashed repeatedly in the head with a laptop on a Manhattan subway train after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,30921],"class_list":{"0":"post-80468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-train-approaching"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80468","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=80468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}