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New York City cops let the suspect accused of beating a 60-year-old woman
with her own cane walk free after interviewing him at the scene of the
heinous attack.

Norton Blake, 43, was named by NYPD officials as the sole suspect in the
attack on Laurell Reynolds, which occurred early Friday inside a Harlem
subway station.

Officers questioned Blake but let him go without arresting him after he
and Reynolds offered conflicting accounts of the attack, the New York Post
reported.

The officers' handling of Blake at the scene is now under investigation,
sources said. An NYPD spokesman did not comment when reached by
DailyMail.com.

The victim Reynolds, who uses a walker, voiced her outrage, telling the
Post in a bedside interview: 'They should've arrested him!'

'I don't deserve that. Not at all, not at all � and I pray to God that it
doesn't happen to no one else,' said Reynolds. 'They need to keep that man
off the street.'

It's unclear whether police viewed bystander video of the attack before or
after they cut Blake loose.

The video was filmed by a transit worker, who called the city's Rail
Control Center, which in turn called 911, as she documented the attack,
officials said.

NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper named Blake as the prime suspect in
the attack at a press conference on Tuesday.

Blake remained at large on Tuesday night, a law enforcement source
confirmed to DailyMail.com.

Within days of the attack, the two-minute clip of the beating went viral -
sparking a search for the man in footage after he successfully fled before
cops arrived.

The attack happened just before 3:30am Friday, as Reynolds - who resides
in the Bronx - was making her way through the subway station at West 116
Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem.

In comments to The New York Post, Reynolds' daughter revealed she learned
of the assault only after seeing the video online.

'Now I know,' recalled 41-year-old Lashanne Reese, also of the Bronx,
after being left wondering why her mom never made it to back her apartment
for a party she was having Saturday, after leaving her home to go home and
change.

Of the harrowing footage - which looked to have been filmed from inside a
subway toll booth - she said: 'I'm hurt - it hurts.'

'That man could've killed my mother,' she added, as her mom remains
hospitalized and is believed to be in stable condition.

'You all did nothing. I have a problem with that.'

Blake has a laundry list of priors, ranging from drug possession and
assault to trespassing and resisting arrest, but reportedly gave a false
name to cops on Friday.

'We're looking for him, and I'm pretty confident that in short order, he
will be arrested and charged for that assault,' Kemper assured reporters
after revealing Blake to be their sole suspect.

Of how the altercation transpired, the top transit cop said he and others
believed the suspect and Reynolds had engaged in some kind of argument as
the victim traversed one of the station's staircases.

'A witness [said] they were arguing over something that might have
dropped,' Kemper said, claiming it was still unclear whether the two knew
each other.

'He might have been helping her carry something up the steps and something
might have dropped, causing them to argue,' he theorized.

The dispute soon devolved into one of the most heinous assaults on the
system in recent memory, during which Blake allegedly hit Reynolds in the
head, stomach, leg, arms, back, and hands.

The beating - which commenced after Blake snagged the woman's walking
stick from her hands - continued as she fell to the ground, and left
thousands across the city and country shocked due to its prolonged and
relentless nature.

Law enforcement sources further told the Post that Blake, while on the
run, is well known to the NYPD - and has prior arrests for drug
possession, assault, trespassing, resisting arrest, evidence tampering,
and possessing stolen property.

Two of the assault offenses saw the suspect strike other NYPD officers,
the insiders said - one in 2017 while resisting arrest and another in 2003
where he punched an officer in the face while he was off-duty.

Reese told the Post she was unsure why her mother was in Harlem at the
time of the assault, and lamented that nobody on the platform jumped in to
help when she was assaulted.

'We're supposed to be a loving, caring community. It's unity in community
� if we put unity in, we get a whole community,' Reese said.

'For them not to do that � this is why it's going on everywhere,' she
continued. 'Everywhere this is happening because there is no unity in our
community.'

Of the suspect, she tearfully said: He needs help � No, he shouldn't be on
the street.

'He just attacked my mother and beat her with a cane. He don't belong on
the street.

Subway crime has been labeled one of the city's major crises and though
statistics say transit offenses are down slightly, even progressive
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said last month he was afraid for
his family when they road the subway.

'I know the statistics that transit crime is down, but when one of my
family members gets on the train, I, too, get a knot in my stomach,' he
told FOX 5 News when asked about the perception that the subway system is
becoming increasingly unsafe.

'I live here, I'm raising my family here, so we have a lot more work to
do,' he added.

Major crime decreased 9.9 percent in the subway system in July from one
year ago, according to the city's statistics.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12484967/NYC-subway-beating-
Norton-Blake-NYPD.html