The NYPD released a sketch Tuesday of a man who they said punched and stabbed a woman and called her a racial slur at a Brooklyn subway station.
The man attacked Ann Marie Washington, 57, after she got off a Q train at the Church Avenue station, near East 18th Street, in Flatbush at about 7:30 p.m. Friday, police said.
The suspect, believed to be in his 30s, fled the scene in an unknown direction after the attack.
Washington, a native of Trinidad, initially appeared to suffer a laceration to her mouth, refused medical attention at the scene. Once she got home, however, she realized she had been stabbed, her family said.
WANTED: #hatecrimestaskforce is investigating and looking to identify the below sketch for an assault that occurred on Friday, Nov 9, 2018 at the Church Ave Station @NYPDTD32 @NYPD70Pct. Look familiar? Call us @NYPDTips 800-577-TIPS (8477). #nyc. pic.twitter.com/DVLsamAM3d
— Chief Dermot F. Shea (@NYPDDetectives) November 13, 2018
Tisha Washington said her mother suffered a collapsed lung and had to have a chest tube put in.
"She should not have been attacked. She was a hardworking woman coming home from work Friday evening and brutally attacked and assaulted," she said Monday at a news conference by the Church Avenue station. "We want justice. We want this guy caught and off the streets."
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force was investigating.
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