‘I came here to f--- up Asians’: Woman hit in face with metal pipe in latest Manhattan hate crime
A 54-year-old woman was slammed in the face with a metal pipe by a stranger on a Lower East Side street who yelled, “I came here to f--- up Asians,” police sources said Monday.
The victim, who is Asian, was walking near Grand St. and Ludlow St. near Chinatown when the bigot screamed the crazed threat and bashed her with the pipe about 4:45 p.m. Sunday.
The blow left a cut across her nose. She was taken to Mount Sinai Beth Israel in stable condition.
Cops arrested suspect Elias Guerrero, 38, a short time later not far from the scene. He was charged with assault as a hate crime, resisting arrest, harassment, and weapon possession.
Guerrero has four prior arrests, all from 2017, on low level charges, including turnstile jumping and resisting arrest.
The attack took place blocks from a separate attack involving another Asian woman who was slugged at Astor Place and Cooper Square about 11:35 a.m., cops said.
The attacker punched the woman twice in the face after stomping on a sign she was carrying that said “Hate has no peace.” That victim was on her way to Sunday’s massive Manhattan march against anti-Asian violence.
