A woman who took a bite out of another passenger in a dispute over a seat on a crowded subway was being sought for assault earlier yesterday, the New York City police said.
The attack occurred on a Manhattan-bound “F” train from Queens a week earlier, when a 45-year-old woman asked the suspect to remove her belongings from a seat so she could sit, said Lieutenant Thomas Antonetti, spokesman for the New York Police Department.
When the rider did not respond, the woman attempted to sit down anyway.
“The suspect became enraged pushing the victim, scratching her on the chest, pulling her hair and biting her on her forearm causing a laceration and bleeding,” the NYPD said in a statement.
The suspect fled the train when it stopped at a station but not before the victim snapped a cellphone picture of her baring her teeth, which police shared with the public to help track down the suspect.
“Caught in the act,” Antonetti said.
The rider was taken to the hospital but has since been released.
