Bus Passenger Chokes Women During Brooklyn Commute, Cops Say

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — An MTA bus passenger punched and throttled an elderly woman then fled into a Brooklyn subway, according to police.

The woman began arguing with a fellow passenger, a 67-year-old woman, on a southbound S79 bus near 86th Street and Fourth Avenue at about 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 14, police said.

She punched the elderly woman in the chest, pulled back the woman's fingers, then wrapped her hands around the woman's neck and choked her, police said.

The elderly woman's attacker then jumped off the bus and ran into the 86th Street R train station nearby, said police.

Police describe the suspect as a woman in her 30s with black hair in a ponytail last seen wearing a dark coat and green medical scrub pants.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact police.

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