DOWNTOWN — A 25-YEAR-OLD ASIAN WOMAN was mugged on a busy street in Downtown Brooklyn on Saturday, Sept. 28, at about 3:25 p.m, in an incident police have labeled a hate crime. The victim was walking in front of 387 Jay St. (between Fulton and Willoughby streets) when two individuals approached her. One made anti-Asian remarks and the other, a woman, forcibly removed her $1,000 cell phone and caused minor injuries to the victim. The pair then fled the location on foot, traveling eastbound on Willoughby Street.
EMS transported the victim to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in stable condition. NYPD released surveillance photos of the female suspect who allegedly grabbed the phone. The other individual was not pictured or described. NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782), on X @NYPDTips, or by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website.
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