NEW YORK — Surveillance video shows a man sucker-punching an elderly woman on the Upper West Side, knocking her out cold. That suspect is still on the run.
It happened around 7 p.m. Friday as Geula Freeman, 81, was taking her son’s dog out for a walk on West 66th Street near Amsterdam.
Video shows a man in a black t-shirt walk by Freeman, but then he turns around, walks back up the sidewalk to where Freeman is standing with the dog and slams his fist into Freeman’s face. The force of the punch knocked Freeman into the side of a building before she collapsed on the sidewalk. As a passerby turns around and walks over to check on Freeman, the suspect is seen flagging down a doorman and apparently asking him to call an ambulance.
“It shows no remorse, sick person,” a neighbor named Scott said.
The incident was captured on Scott’s surveillance cameras.
“Sad. I felt really bad for her, she’s such a sweet woman,” he said.