Overview

• The first attack occurred May 10 at 2:30 p.m. when a man was struck in the head with a metal pipe aboard a Morrisania bus near 165th Street and 3rd Avenue.
• Later that night just before 11:30 p.m., an argument on a bus near Crotona Park ended with an 18-year-old passenger hit in the head by a pipe.
• Both victims were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries and are expected to recover.
• NYPD investigators are working to determine if a single suspect carried out both attacks and are actively searching for the individual who fled each scene.
• The incidents have heightened commuter safety concerns on Bronx buses despite a year-to-date decline in transit crime.