Enraged Subway Panhandler Beats Man Who Had No Cash To Give: NYPD

KENSINGTON, BROOKLYN — A panhandler attacked a man who had no money to give him in a Kensington subway station on Sunday, according to police.

The suspect lunged at the 28-year-old man inside the F train station on Ditmas and McDonald avenues, after the man told him he didn’t have any money, at about 2:20 a.m., police said.

Video surveillance shows the panhandler chasing the man down before punching him in the face, knocking him to the ground and kicking him, said police.

The mugger then went through his victims’ pockets, threw the contents on the mezzanine floor and smashed his cell phone, before running from the Ditmas Avenue station, police said.

Emergency responders took the 26-year-old to Maimonides Hospital where he was treated for a fractured elbow, ribs and cuts on his face, said police.

Police are now looking for the attacker, whom they describe as a man in his early 20s, standing about 5-foot 5-inches, last seen wearing a black hooded sweater with a shark’s mouth on the chest.

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

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