New York Daily News

Police air pix of suspect wanted for bottle bash

- BY ROCCO PARASCANDO­LA

MTA surveillan­ce cameras captured footage of the suspect wanted for bashing a Bronx subway conductor in the head with a glass bottle, police said Thursday.

The unprovoked assault happened just before noon Wednesday as the 38-year-old victim was in her cab on a Manhattan-bound No. 4 train at the 167th St. station in Concourse.

The attacker ran off, with the victim continuing with her job for two stops, until she spotted police officers at the 149th St.-Grand Concourse station.

The conductor asked the cops for help, and they called her an ambulance. Medics took her to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.

Cops released the surveillan­ce images of the suspect and are asking the public’s help identifyin­g him (photo) and tracking him down.

The attack came just hours after Gov. Hochul announced she was sending 750 National Guard troops into the subway system to combat a spike in headline-grabbing crimes.

Police will also be conducting more bag checks as straphange­rs enter subway stations.

Last Thursday, conductor Alton Scott, 59, was slashed at the Rockaway Ave. station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on

Thursday.

Scott was cut when he poked his head out of the conductor’s cab of the Far Rockaway-bound A train at around 3:30 a.m., cops said.

A doctor on the train applied pressure on the wound until medics arrived and rushed the conductor to Brookdale University Hospital, where he needed 34 stitches and nine sutures to close up the deep cut.

Police are still looking for that slasher.

Anyone with informatio­n on Wednesday’s attacker is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidenti­al.

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