A man wielding a hard object wrapped in a white plastic bag smacked three young Asian women in the face in separate incidents Wednesday and Friday, according to the NYPD.
The women were hospitalized but later released, police said. Police are distributing surveillance footage showing the unidentified black man assaulting the three women aged 29 to 35 in three different Manhattan neighborhoods.
One victim told investigators that the hard object that struck her in the cheek or chin area was a bottle, but the other two weren’t able to identify what was used, an NYPD spokesman told the Daily News.