An unprovoked assault in Manhattan this week left an 85-year-old woman unconscious and suffering from a brain bleed after she was violently pushed to the ground, according to officials and sources.
The attack occurred as the elderly woman was disembarking a bus near East 16th Street and Union Square East around 12:25 p.m. on Monday. A younger woman, later identified by law enforcement as 29-year-old Paris Valentine, allegedly “aggressively” shoved her to the pavement, as detailed in a criminal complaint.
Valentine, who reportedly had no prior connection to the victim and was not a fellow passenger, silently approached and forcefully knocked down the senior citizen, according to law enforcement sources.
The victim, gravely injured, was unable to rise after the fall and was subsequently transported to Bellevue Hospital. There, she remains in critical yet stable condition, still unconscious, as reported by police and prosecutors.
The assault inflicted significant injuries, including swelling, redness, and bleeding, with part of her scalp detached on the right side of her head, the court documents reveal.
Valentine was apprehended at the location of the incident and faces charges of first and second-degree assault, both classified as felonies, authorities confirmed.
She was ordered held without bail â as requested by prosecutors â and will reappear in court Friday.
Valentine has one prior arrest, for allegedly threatening a 28-year-old male neighbor with a Taser following a dispute in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.
The Manhattan attack came just days after a shirtless, muscular maniac allegedly pummeled a 72-year-old man at random as he walked in Brooklyn on Thursday, cops said.
The brute punched the senior multiple times on Chester Street near Pitkin Avenue in Brownsville around noon, causing him to fall and hit his head, authorities said.
The victim was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, police said.
The two men did not know each other, and the buff assailant â pictured in surveillance images â said nothing to him, according to law enforcement sources.
Police are still looking to track him down.
The attacks also came weeks after an unhinged recidivist just released from psychiatric treatment at Bellevue Hospital fatally pushed a beloved 76-year-old former teacher down a flight of concrete stairs at a Manhattan subway station.
