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Kingsbridge Heights: Bus Driver Assaulted with Face-Spray Substance Amid Dispute with Passenger

The NYPD is asking for the public’s help identifying the person seen in the attached video and photos who is being sought in connection to an assault on an on-duty MTA employee that occurred in Kingsbridge Heights.

An NYPD spokesperson said that on Friday, Sept. 23, at 10.48 a.m. in the vicinity of West 195th Street and Reservoir Avenue, an unidentified woman who was with a young child approached an MTA bus driver while on the BX32 bus to ask a question.

 

 

A verbal dispute ensued and resulted in the woman allegedly spraying the bus driver with an unknown substance in the face. The driver was removed to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition and the woman fled the scene on foot.

 

Video and photos are attached.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/or on Twitter @NYPDTips.

 

All calls are strictly confidential.

 

 

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