A 73-year-old man was punched out by a stranger in broad daylight in Flushing on the morning of Saturday, Aug. 10, and police from the 109th Precinct are still looking for his attacker, who remains at large nearly two weeks after the beatdown.
The senior was walking in front of a row of stores at 41-12 Main St., when a man wearing a cast on his right wrist began to argue with him. The verbal dispute escalated into violence when the assailant punched the victim multiple times in his face and head with a closed fist, causing a laceration to his forehead. An NYPD spokesman could not say if the suspect used the cast as a weapon during the assault.
When the beating was over, the assaulter ran off, running southeast on Kissena Boulevard toward Sanford Avenue. EMS responded to the crime scene and transported the wounded victim to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens, where he was listed in stable condition.
The NYPD released a surveillance image of the suspect on Tuesday and described him as having a dark complexion and a white cast on his right arm. He wore a black t-shirt, shorts and sneakers, with calf-high white socks with blue stripes at the top. He also wore a black backpack.
A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for information that leads to his arrest.
Anyone with information regarding this assault investigation 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 Crime Stoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.
Through Aug. 18, the 109th Precinct has reported 329 felony assaults so far in 2024, 40 fewer than the 289 reported at the same point last year, an increase of 13.8%, according to the most recent CompStat report.
