NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A man who held a woman at gunpoint for her cellphone at a Lower Manhattan salon "wrestled" with a woman for her phone at a subway station less than an hour later and got into a similar struggle with a woman at a restaurant days later, police said Wednesday as they released a photo of the suspect.
In the first robbery on Jan. 13, a 24-year-old woman was approached by the man inside a salon on Hester Street in Chinatown, and he stole her cellphone out of her hand.
When she tried to get her phone back, the man brandished a gun and pointed it directly at her before fleeing on foot with her phone.
Just over 30 minutes later, the NYPD said the same man fought with a woman on a platform inside the Chambers Street subway station on Broadway in Tribeca. Police received multiple calls about the robbery, and one caller noted that his gun fell out of his waistband.
The victim fled on board a southbound "1" train while the unidentified male picked up the gun from the floor and fled outside the train station.
Two days later, around 10:40 p.m., the suspect entered a Chelsea restaurant on West 26th Street near Eighth Avenue and stole an iPhone from the waist of a 24-year-old woman.
A struggle ensued, and the man brandished a gun, forcibly took her phone, and fled westward on Hester Street.
Anyone with information in regard to these incidents is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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