HOCKEY STICK ‘ATTACK’
A hockey stick-wielding madman whacked a woman in the East Village, then seethed, “I’m going to f--k you up!” the shaken victim said Thursday — vowing she’ll now carry Mace to ward off future creeps.
Finance worker Amber Nguyen was heading to her home in the area with pals on April 9 when a brute whacked her on East Sixth Street between First Avenue and Avenue A around 10:30 p.m. — the latest random attack targeting women in the Big Apple.
“He whipped me with a hockey stick on the back of my thigh,” Nguyen told The Post Thursday.
“We just heard this loud whipping noise, and he was just walking away with a hockey stick.”
The attacker — who police released surveillance footage of Wednesday — said nothing before preying upon her and then setting his sights on another unsuspecting woman nearby, according to Nguyen.
“He tried to hit the girl, but her boyfriend was like, ‘What are you doing,’ ” Nguyen recalled.
‘Charged at us again’
The other woman’s boyfriend spooked him off, while Nguyen and her friends trailed the hockeymadman stick-holding for blocks. But “he turned around and charged at us again,” she said. He then snarled, “I’m going to f--k you up!” the finance pro, who moved to the city a year ago, told The Post. Nguyen’s group ran into a restaurant while her attacker eventually fled. The disturbing incident came alongside numerous women reporting being randomly slugged by men while walking around New York City over last month.
A number of the random assaults took place in Manhattan, targeting female victims in their 20s.
Some of the women recalled the traumatizing experiences on TikTok and Instagram, showing the injuries they had sustained.
“We were talking and just in a group. It doesn’t matter if you are walking alone or in a group, anything can happen to you,” Nguyen said about the recent string of random attacks.
“You can be as cautious as possible and anything can happen to you.”
Nguyen was treated at the scene and left with a gnarly yellow and purple bruise.
Asked what she’ll do to protect herself in the city, she said: “Now I’m going to carry Mace with me, which I probably should have done in the beginning.”