Oct. 29, 2024 By Bill Parry
A 21-year-old man was bludgeoned by a bat-wielding panhandler inside the Queensboro Plaza subway station in Long Island City on Sunday night.
The victim was on the platform waiting for a Manhattan-bound N train at around 11:35 p.m. when the suspect approached him and asked for money. When the victim refused, the panhandler began to argue with him, and the verbal dispute escalated into violence when the perpetrator allegedly pulled out a baseball bat from his backpack and smashed the victim in the back of the head, police said Tuesday.
Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and Transit District 20 responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress and found the victim bleeding from a laceration to the back of his head.