Teen beat four passengers with a board on New York City subway
'12.10.2023'
Alina Prikhodko
In New York, they are looking for a teenager who is suspected of attacking four subway passengers. He threw wooden planks from a moving train and hit passengers waiting on the platform, reports New York Post.
The bizarre incidents, which left two victims hospitalized, occurred at three consecutive R Line stations in Queens on October 5, according to the New York Police Department.
Around noon, a 59-year-old woman waiting for a train on the southbound platform at Grand Avenue Station was hit in the throat with a piece of wood by a passenger on the train. She was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in a stable condition with minor injuries.
Ten minutes later, two men waiting on platform R southbound at Elmhurst Avenue station reported that a person on the train pulled a block of wood from the moving train and threw it at them. No one was injured, police said.
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Then at 12:42 p.m., a 56-year-old woman waiting for a train on the southbound R platform at the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue station was hit in the head with a wooden board by a person leaning out of the same train. The woman was taken to Elmhurst Hospital where she received stitches, police said.

According to police, the suspect did not leave the train after all three incidents and remains wanted. The NYPD released a photo of the young suspect as he walked through the turnstile, wearing black pants, a black sweater and an orange backpack.