NYC homeless man hurls cell phone at baby in stroller during Bryant Park horror attack: cops
A crazed homeless man went on a rampage in Manhattan’s Bryant Park Saturday in which he hurled a cell phone at a mother and her infant in a stroller — striking the child in the arm, cops said. Saturday, 49-year-old Marc Okon allegedly targeted the stroller near Sixth Avenue and West 41st Street, striking the baby girl in the left arm with a cell phone and causing visible redness.
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A crazed homeless man went on a rampage in Manhattan’s Bryant Park Saturday in which he hurled a cell phone at a mother and her infant in a stroller — striking the child in the arm, cops said. Saturday, 49-year-old Marc Okon allegedly targeted the stroller near Sixth Avenue and West 41st Street, striking the baby girl in the left arm with a cell phone and causing visible redness. Okon, who is homeless, then reportedly retrieved the device and threw it again at the 39-year-old mother, though the phone missed its mark. Police took Okon into custody at the scene, charging him with assault, endangering the welfare of a child, and reckless endangerment.
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- A crazed homeless man went on a rampage in Manhattan’s Bryant Park Saturday in which he hurled a cell phone at a mother and her infant in a stroller — striking the child in the arm, cops said. Saturday, 49-year-old Marc Okon allegedly targeted the stroller near Sixth Avenue and West 41st Street, striking the baby girl in the left arm with a cell phone and causing visible redness.
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