Left: The suspect seen on West 40th Street (DCPI). Right: 244 West 101st Street, the location of the incident (Google Maps)
The New York City Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating an unidentified male suspect wanted for a recent robbery.
On Monday, January 10 at 7:15pm, a 22-year-old female entered the vestibule of 244 West 101st Street, between West End Avenue and Broadway. The suspect followed her in and grabbed her cellphone. When the 22-year-old female resisted, the suspect put a knife to her throat. He then fled on foot to the 103rd Street subway station on Broadway. The victim was not injured.
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In the following video, the suspect can be seen in the vicinity of West 40th and Eighth Avenue (where he can be seen running from a police car).
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or by sending a direct message to @NYPDTips on Twitter. All calls are strictly confidential.
Wow, 7:15pm. How awful and traumatic for the victim. Our best hope for justice here may be if this guy is in turn robbed of the phone by the now-ubiquitous army of fancier gun-toting criminals around the neighborhood.