NYC straphanger shot with gel pellets, robbed of glasses

A Queens straphanger was attacked by a menacing crew of creeps who fired gel pellets at him earlier than making off along with his prescription eyeglasses, authorities stated Monday. 

The 34-year-old sufferer was driving a southbound No. 7 practice at Fundamental Avenue in Flushing round 4:30 p.m. Sunday when the male suspects approached him and “started to harass him,” cops stated. 

Then they punched him and fired a “gel shot imitation pistol” towards him, police stated. Such “weapons” use water-absorbing polymer beads as “ammo.” 

The suspects tried to seize the sufferer’s gold chain however had been unsuccessful, cops stated. 

The sufferer was in a position to briefly get away from his attackers and transfer to a different automobile towards the entrance of the practice, police stated. 

Police launched surveillance photos Monday of the suspects who they consider punched a person, fired gel pellets at him and snatched his glasses in Queens.

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He acquired off the practice on the Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Avenue station, the place the muggers approached him as soon as once more on the platform, cops stated. 

There, they snatched his prescription eyeglasses off his face and smacked him, police stated. 

The robbers fled with the sufferer’s glasses and had been final seen hopping on an F practice, cops stated. 

The suspects first approached the 34-year-old sufferer on a southbound No. 7 practice at Fundamental Avenue in Flushing, cops stated.

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Police launched surveillance images early Monday of the suspects, who're nonetheless on the lam and described as of their late teenagers or early 20s.

The sufferer is Asian, in keeping with cops, however there was not instantly any proof of a hate crime. 

He didn't report any accidents and refused medical consideration on the scene. 

The robbers fled with the sufferer’s glasses and had been final seen hopping on an F practice, cops stated.

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Earlier within the yr, a social-media development noticed teenagers utilizing the identical sort of weapons to shoot the round gel beads at mates. 

In July, an NYPD site visitors agent was writing a ticket in The Bronx when he was struck within the again with 4 Orbeez model water gel pellets, police stated.

That very same month, metropolis Correction officer Dion Middleton, 45, additionally was charged within the Bronx capturing demise of 18-year-old Raymond Chaluisant, who might have been firing a water-pellet gun at him, cops stated.

Middleton’s lawyer, Joey Jackson, has claimed that his shopper opened fireplace in self-defense.