Crime & Safety

8 Guys Attack Delivery Worker With Bat In Wash Heights: NYPD

Police are still looking for a group of eight that recently attacked a delivery worker with a bat and sticks near West 179th Street.

An image of a delivery worker (in the orange and yellow vest), getting attacked with a stick in Washington Heights.
An image of a delivery worker (in the orange and yellow vest), getting attacked with a stick in Washington Heights. (Courtesy of NYPD)

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A delivery driver was hit in the head with a baseball bat and stick after he was ambushed by a group of eight guys in Washington Heights, police said and video shows.

Police are still looking for the group seven days after the attack on March 1, which took place around 9:15 p.m. in front of 1365 Saint Nicholas Avenue (Between West 178th and 179th streets.)

A member of the group hit the 29-year-old man delivering food in the head with a stick, before the delivery driver stumbled into another blow to the head from a baseball bat, police said.

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Luckily, the delivery driver was wearing a bike helmet.

The 29-year-old man ran into the safety of a building as one of the group members damaged his bike, before they all fled southbound on Saint Nicholas Avenue, police said.

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Here is a video of the attack.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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