Rock-wielding stranger bashes NYC subway rider’s head in random attack: sources

A rock-wielding menace bashed a straphanger within the head throughout a random assault inside a Manhattan subway station Wednesday afternoon, in keeping with police and sources. 

The 56-year-old man was strolling inside 14th Road and Eighth Avenue station in Chelsea on the mezzanine stage when a brute got here out of nowhere and whacked him a number of occasions within the head with a rock round 12:30 p.m., cops mentioned.

“He took a great shot to the pinnacle,” a building employee who witnessed the unhinged assault informed The Submit. 

The attacker then ran out of the station, in keeping with police and the witness. 

The injured sufferer, who suffered lacerations to his head, was taken by medics to NYC Well being + Hospitals/Bellevue, the place he was listed in secure situation. 

Police mentioned the perp was nonetheless on the free Wednesday afternoon.

The underground mayhem got here hours after a 54-year-old man was stabbed to dying on a platform contained in the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station Tuesday night time round 11:20 p.m., cops mentioned.

Moments earlier than the bloodshed, the sufferer fought along with his attacker on board a southbound N prepare, in keeping with sources.

His assailant had not been captured as of Wednesday afternoon. 

Further reporting by Joe Marino and Amanda Woods