In an exclusive interview with naveencbs2ny, a 56-year-old woman described being randomly attacked by a man while walking home from the movies with her husband on Saturday night on the Upper West Side.
Police say it happened on West 69th Street and Broadway, and it was a group of good Samaritans who saw something and did something, catching the suspect moments after the attack.
"We're at the corner of 69th Street and we were chatting, and then a man came up and punched me suddenly on my right cheek," the 56-year-old victim told CBS New York exclusively."It was like a sudden impact of something hard against my face," she said."I was definitely in shock. I was trembling." "He kept walking and I was following him and all of sudden a swarm of guys, like five or six guys, started chasing after him. He started running back up Broadway on the street," the victim's husband said.
"I have like the marks of this guy's knuckle on my cheek and my cheek is swollen and I can't really open my mouth fully," the victim said."I've never been a victim of any violence at all until last night," she said.
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