Police: Suspect arrested in series of NYC spray attacks
By: News 12 Staff Mar 10, 2019, 3:38pm Updated on: Mar 10, 2019
Police say a Bronx woman has been arrested in connection of a series of attacks in Manhattan Friday that involved a substance being sprayed in the faces of passersby.
Police say a transgender woman named Thomas J. Heard sprayed the unknown substance at seven people in the span of an hour.
She allegedly sprayed the first victim inside the 125th Street and Lenox Avenue subway station, and then sprayed five others who were walking along 125th Street.
Police say she then attacked another person waiting for the 1 train on 96th Street.
Two of the victims were treated for minor injuries.
The case was investigated by the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force. Charges against Heard were pending Sunday.