Subway Rider Beaten Upside Head with Cellphone
Straphanger Beats Passenger, Hops on Train for Getaway The NYPD is searching for this man for an assault on a Queens subway platform. -Photo by NYPD By Dan Gesslein Queens Voice March 12, 2024 QUEENS - A subway rider was beaten about the head with a cellphone by a fellow straphanger during an arguement on the F Train, cops said. At around 8 am on March 11, a 19-year-old man was standing on the northbound platform of the F Train at a Queens train station. Cops said the male got into a dispute with another young man on the platform which soon turned violent. Suddenly, the suspect took the cellphone in his hand and started to use it to smash the victim in the face and head, cops said. The attacker repeatedly punched the victim with the cellphone and then hopped on a northbound F Train that pulled into the station.