Subway rider beaten in anti-LGBTQ attack at Brooklyn station

Subway rider beaten in anti-LGBTQ attack at Queens station
Subway rider beaten in anti-LGBTQ attack at a Queens station last week. Photo credit NYPD

NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) — Police on Wednesday released a photo of a man wanted for allegedly beating a subway rider in anti-LGBTQ attack at a Brooklyn station last week.

At approximately 1:08 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17, the suspect approached a 31-year-old man inside the Canarsie–Rockaway Parkway subway station.

According to officials, the suspect began to use anti LGBTQ remarks towards the victim and struck him multiple times.

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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