Man Arrested Following Senior Beating In Harlem Subway: Police

HARLEM, NY — A Bronx man was arrested and charged in connection with a brutal beatdown of a 60-year-old disabled woman inside a Harlem subway station, police said.

Norton Blake, 43, was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with assault, according to police.

On Friday at 3:30 a.m., Blake beat 60-year-old Laurell Reynolds dozens of times all over her body with her own cane inside of the West 116th Street and Lenox Avenue train station, according to cops and the New York Post.

Blake beat the 60-year-old woman so brutally that the wooden cane snaps in two, according to a video taken by a MTA employee who alerted the police. Blake later takes off his belt to continue beating the defenseless Reynolds as he yells at her and she screams for help, the video shows.

NYPD officials told the New York Post that Norton has nine prior arrests.

Police reportedly spoke to both Norton and Blake when they responded to the scene, but let Blake go free, according to the New York Post.

“I don’t deserve that. Not at all, not at all … and I pray to God that it doesn’t happen to no one else,” Reynolds told the New York Post in a bedside interview in Harlem Hospital. “They need to keep that man off the street.”

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