Crazed elderly man bashes chatty woman with cane on NYC train — gets cut loose next day: prosecutors

A crazed elderly man bashed a chatty female straphanger with his cane over the weekend, only to be cut loose in court the next day, NYPD cops and prosecutors said.

Leroy Davis, 75, zeroed in on his 50-year-old victim, who he didn’t know, as she was talking with another person aboard a southbound No. 5 train at the 86th Street station on the Upper East Side in Manhattan around 10 a.m. Sunday, police said.

Davis snapped at the woman, “Shut up!” sparking a dispute that came to a violent end, with her becoming “aggressive” and the senior walloping her multiple times all over her body with the walking cane, leaving her with multiple cuts and a broken finger, cops said…

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