Tourist slashed, robbed in Times Square in latest out-of-towner assault

A Maryland vacationer was smashed within the head with a bottle, slashed throughout the face and robbed in Occasions Sq. over the weekend — the newest Large Apple assault on an unsuspecting out-of-towner.

The 30-year-old sufferer was outdoors the CVS at 1440 Broadway in Manhattan round 4:30 a.m. Saturday when he was approached by two males and a girl, police sources advised The Submit.

The trio tried to get the sufferer to purchase medicine, then the lady propositioned him for intercourse, sources mentioned.

When the vacationer refused each presents, one of many suspects hit him within the head with a bottle and slashed him throughout the face with a pointy object earlier than working off with $140, the sources mentioned.

The sufferer was taken to Bellevue Hospital, the place he wanted 16 stitches to shut the gash throughout his proper cheek, the sources mentioned.

The incident comes after a customer from Denmark was shot on the Higher West Aspect final month for refusing to surrender his valuables to an armed thief.

The 31-year-old European vacationer was at West 103rd Road and West Finish Avenue in Manhattan round 3:30 a.m. Sept 18 when he “simply stored strolling” because the robber demanded his mobile phone and money, police mentioned.

Earlier final month, a 30-year-old vacationer from Belgium additionally was slashed within the face in an unprovoked assault at a Chelsea subway station in Manhattan, police mentioned.

And Sept. 1 a 21-year-old Large Apple customer from St. Louis was attacked and raped at a Occasions Sq. subway station round 3 a.m., police mentioned.