*The 31-year-old man caught on camera pushing a 92-year-old woman in Manhattan is a career criminal with more than 100 arrests to his name.
Rashid Brimmage of the Bronx, has been arrested for shoving an elderly woman into a fire hydrant, hitting her head as she stumbled over.
Surveillance footage captured the disturbing attack, showing Brimmage approaching her from the opposite direction and assaulting the woman walking with her shopping cart. The incident occurred on Third Avenue between 15th and 16th streets Friday afternoon, NBC New York reports.
He was arrested Tuesday and charged with assault. The victim was reportedly taken to a hospital in stable condition.
“When they helped me up, I said ‘what happened’ because I didn’t even know what happened. It was completely out of the blue,” said the injured elder, a Bronx native named Geraldine.
“I thought a brick hit me or something hit me on the left side of my head, and I went right down and hit my head against the hydrant,” she told The Post of the attack. “Blood was coming out, not spurting blood, but blood was dripping.”
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Days after she was assaulted, Geraldine is still too afraid to go outside.
“I’m so happy he was arrested. Boy, he should stay in jail and think about what he did. Try to change, and try to make himself better,” she said.
Brimmage is a convicted sex offender who has been arrested three times since February for alleged assaults.
Here’s more from the NBC report:
- He is an NYPD co-response client, which means police have responded with social workers when dealing with him. Brimmage has an extensive history of being emotionally disturbed in police encounters as well.
- On March 9, he allegedly punched a 29-year-old man in an unprovoked attack at a pizza shop in Manhattan. A few weeks before that, Brimmage allegedly punched a 39-year-old female at a Dunkin’ Donuts in the Bronx.
- On Feb. 4 he allegedly punched a 39-year-old man in the face at that same Dunkin’ Donuts. In the latter two cases, he received desk appearance tickets.
- Brimmage is currently a suspect in a grand larceny that happened on Feb.19 at the 116th St. train station in which a woman had $120 stolen from her purse.
“Mostly I’m shaken. My head still hurts where it was bleeding, where I hit the hydrant — or where he hit me, I don’t know,” said Geraldine.
“Mainly it’s psychological — just the fear of going out on the street,” she added.
“This damned guy put me in a state where I’m fearful to walk the streets alone. So my super’s trying to find somebody who will walk me to a park nearby or to the supermarket, that kind of thing. So that’s the problem.”
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