Crime & Safety
Bus Driver Pepper Sprayed In Unprovoked Washington Heights Attack
A person flagged down a bus near West 162nd Street and blasted the driver with pepper spray, before running away, police said.
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — An attacker pepper sprayed a bus driver in the face in Washington Heights for no apparent reason, police said on Wednesday.
The bus was cruising around 9:30 a.m. on Sept. 15 when a person flagged it down near West 162nd Street and Edgecombe Avenue, police said.
The 35-year-old man driving the bus stopped for the person, but upon opening the doors, was hit in the face with pepper spray, video shows. The attacker then fled on a bike westbound on West 162nd Street.
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The bus driver suffered burning and irritation and was taken to Columbia Presbyterian in stable condition, police said.
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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