New York City police were on the hunt for a suspect seen on video brutally pummeling and robbing a 67-year-old man inside an elevator Friday — and wiping his fingerprints after he appeared to push the button for the older man’s floor.
“It was so fast,” the older man, who identified himself as a veteran, said of the attack as he held his arm in a cast. “He hit me in the face so many times… I have a messed-up arm, I couldn’t fight back.”
The attacker, who tried to hide his face in a hooded sweatshirt, got onto the elevator with the man around 11 p.m. in the lobby of the Bronx apartment building, police said.
