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Geraldine Chase was brutally attacked on a subway train in the Bronx.
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BY ALEX MITCHELL
After a gruesome video
captured a Westchester
man assaulting a defenseless
78-year–old woman on
the #2IRT train near Nereid
Avenue station in the early
morning hours of Sunday,
March 10 it didn’t take the
NYPD much time to spring
into action.
Police apprehended
36-year-old Marc Gomez of
Yonkers on Saturday, March,
23 when he was spotted by
a tipster in Greenwich Vil-
Yonkers resident Marc Gomez, 36, has been charged with multiple counts
of assault. Photo courtesy of NYPD Detectives Chief Dermot F. Shea
lage.
The video showed Gomez
allegedly kicking and punching
a woman whose only defense
was her own raised
arms to block the blows.
Meanwhile heartless passengers
recorded the attack
rather than intervening to
protect the senior citizen.
Chief of Detectives Dermot
Shea stated shortly after
the attack that “the victim
was treated & released from
the hospital & is getting the
care, advocacy & support
needed”.
“Thank you to the worldwide
community for the tremendous
assistance,” he
posted on Twitter after the
viral video aided in the police
investigaton.
An online GoFundMe was
started by Refi nery29 news
editor Ashley Alese Edwards
to raise money for the woman
who is reportedly homeless.
“I was horrifi ed when I
saw the video of an elderly
woman being assaulted on a
subway train in the Bronx,”
Edwards stated. “Not only
was she brutally attacked by
a man, no one stepped in to
help her; they instead just recorded
the attack and posted
it on social media. I live in
New York City and take the
subway daily, we should all
be looking out for one another,”
she continued.
The fundraiser managed
to identify the woman
as Geraldine Chase. As the
fundraiser reached its goal
the victim’s family requested
it be cancelled on Tuesday,
March 26.