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(New York, NY) – NYPD detectives are looking for the creep who stole a woman’s cane and viciously beat her at a Harlem subway stop. Video of the incident has gone viral on social media, and police have identified Norton Blake as their suspect. He reportedly has a history of arrests.
It was 3:30 AM last Friday when 60-year-old Laurell Reynolds of the Bronx was attacked. The man who assaulted her hit her so often and so many times with her wooden cane that it shattered. At one point the attacker used his fists to assault her, and then started punching himself in the face. Reynolds was hospitalized in stable condition.
Her daughter, 41-year-old Lashanne Reese, explained her emotions to the New York Post: “I’m hurt — it hurts. That man could’ve killed my mother … You all did nothing. I have a problem with that.” And the video posted to social media – reportedly taken by a subway worker from inside the toll booth – shows no one stopped to help the woman. Reese, who is a crisis management worker, says her mother’s attacker needs to be jailed and shouldn’t be out on the streets. She’s also asked her mom to stop riding the subway at night – but says older people are sometimes “stubborn.”
