A $10,000 reward is being provided for data resulting in the arrest of the brute who left a New York mother on the point of dying throughout an tried mugging in a Chinatown subway station final week.
Neighborhood activist Phil Wong introduced the reward Thursday throughout a press convention with Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa concerning the horrific July 17 assault.
“I’ve waited for elected officers to return out and denounce this crime and it’s been 5 days, it’s been six days — nothing occurred,” mentioned Wong, president of the Chinese language American Residents Alliance of Higher New York.
Sliwa, the Guardian Angels founder, additionally blasted native pols for what he mentioned was “deafening” silence within the wake of the botched theft that despatched 58-year-old Than Htwe to the hospital with traumatic head accidents.
“You’d assume {that a} crime like this that places a mom in ICU, on life assist, would have the eye of not simply town however the entire world,” Sliwa mentioned.
Htwe and her 22-year-old son had been on their solution to her physician’s workplace on Saturday morning once they had been attacked from behind whereas strolling up the steps within the Canal Road Q prepare station, police have mentioned.
The assailant grabbed the son’s bookbag, inflicting him to fall backward and attain for his mother, who plunged down the steps with him and hit her head on the bottom.
The Brooklyn lady, an immigrant from Myanmar, stays unconscious after present process mind surgical procedure over the weekend — and her household on Tuesday mentioned docs concern she might by no means get up.
Police have launched surveillance pictures of the suspect, seen exiting the subway platform, carrying a bandanna round his neck.
Sliwa mentioned he and his vigilante group would distribute and put up reward fliers, and improve their patrols in Chinatown and space subway stations.
“Hopefully we are able to take this offender off the streets — and hopefully, he doesn’t qualify for no bail,” Sliwa mentioned.
Further reporting by Jessica Sonkin
