Qns. woman details being attacked for subway video
Cops seek man wanted in Crown Heights gun death
The punches came so fast, she didn’t know what to do.
A Queens woman says a man and a woman on the subway turned their rage on her when they discovered she was recording them after they attacked another passenger.
The vicious assault left her with a black eye and a swollen face, 26-year-old Victoria told the Daily News on Saturday. She also has cuts and bruises on her arms and legs.
“You get punched in the face that many times, you just don’t really know what’s going on around you,” said the Astoria woman, who asked that her last name not be used. “I just couldn’t believe it was happening.”
Victoria was nearing Long Island City aboard a Manhattan-bound No. 7 train on her way home from a doctor’s appointment around 1 p.m. July 27 when she saw a commotion at the far end of her car.
A man in a red shirt (inset top) accompanied by a woman in a striped outfit (inset bottom) lashed out and punched a seated man. The assailant then slapped the man’s phone away.
Victoria took out her cell phone and began filming.
“I really just wanted their faces on camera,” she told The News. “I was trying to be discreet.”
As the video starts, there’s yelling in the distance. Moments later, the unidentified victim stands up and walks down the subway car towards Victoria. Blood is visible on his hand.
The suspected assailant and his companion followed close behind the victim. The suspect yelled at other straphangers, the video shows.
As they pass Victoria, the woman noticed her phone.
“Why you recording? Why you recording? Delete it,” she says. Victoria told her to “calm down.”
“She punched me, then the man turned and they both started hitting me,” Victoria said.
At this point, the video appears wobbly and suddenly ends.
Victoria wasn’t sure how many times she was hit.
When the train reached Queensboro Plaza, her attackers fled, she said. She then met up with the other victim, who had found a police officer.
Police told The News on Friday that they were investigating the attack. The 20-year-old man who was punched suffered from a swollen left eye, cops said.
Despite all that happened to her, Victoria insists if forced to live through it again, she’d still take out her phone.
A surveillance camera captured an image of a man police are seeking in the shooting death of a 17-year-old in Brooklyn.
The suspect (below) in Jahiem Guinn’s death is between 18 and 20 years old, is 5-foot-8 and weighs about 150 pounds, police said.
He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt, dark-colored shorts, white sneakers and a red T-shirt over his head.
Guinn died as he argued with another man outside the Weeksville Garden Houses on Dean St. near Troy Ave. in Crown Heights around 10:20 p.m. July 24.
Guinn was found on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head when police arrived.
He was rushed to Interfaith Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.