NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Police on Tuesday released a photo of a suspect wanted for hitting an MTA worker with a metal pipe, causing him to lose several teeth inside an Upper Manhattan subway station over the weekend.
It happened at approximately 11:45 p.m. on Sunday, August 27, while a 37-year-old man was working as an on-duty train operator, authorities said.
The unknown passenger engaged the train operator in a verbal dispute, while he was clearing a northbound C train at the 168 Street-Washington Heights subway station due to the train going out of service, officials said.
As the dispute escalated, the suspect continued to disobey the operator's verbal commands to exit the train, the suspect displayed a box-cutter as well as a metal pipe.
The suspect then proceeded to strike the train operator in the face with the metal pipe, before fleeing out of the station to the street in an unknown direction.
The victim sustained trauma to his mouth and lost multiple teeth as a result of this assault.
He was transported by EMS to New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in stable condition.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
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