Woman attacked with hammer to the head and robbed in NYC subway station

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

NYC — A woman was left with a fractured skull after she was attacked with a hammer on the head and robbed in a Queens subway station Thursday.

57-year-old Nina Rothschild, a New York City Health Department worker, is in critical condition after police believe she was hit as many as 13 times.

Rothschild was on her way home from work and walking down into the Queens Plaza E, M and R station at around 11:20pm, when a male subject crept up behind her and kicked her, in an attempt to make her fall down the stairs, authorities said.

Video of the attack then shows the suspect pull out a hammer and hit the woman multiple times on the head — before grabbing her purse and fleeing.

Among item stolen were some cash, two phones, two rings as well as credit and debit cards.

When police arrived at the scene they found Nina Rothschild lying on the ground with trauma to her head. She was taken to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition with a fractured skull and brain bleeding.

Police are asking for the public’s help in the search for the suspect.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.



CREDIT: USACRIME.COM