Elderly Woman Sucker Punched by Shower Cap Wearing Attacker at Yankee Stadium Station

Police are searching for a woman wearing a shower cap who allegedly assaulted a woman at the Yankee Stadium subway station. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice

September 8, 2023

BRONX - An elderly woman was sucker punched and repeatedly beaten as she exited a subway elevator at Yankee Stadium in an apparent random attack.

At around 6:15 pm on September 7, a 72-year-old woman was riding the elevator to subway platform at the Yankee Stadium station of the Number 4 train at River Avenue and East 161 Street.

As the woman exited the elevator to the subway platform she was punched in the face. Cops said a woman wearing a shower cap pounced on the elderly straphanger and continued to punch her repeatedly in the face. 

The attacker then ran out of the station and fled in an unknown direction.

EMS transported the victim to Lincoln Hospital where she was treated for a laceration under her eye. Cops said the victim also suffered bruising and swelling about the face.

The suspect is described as a woman who is 35 to 40 years of age and 200 pounds. 

She was last seen wearing a shower cap, white T-shirt, tan pants, black sandals, and carrying a black book bag.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 

All calls are strictly confidential.