New York Police: Pregnant Woman Attacked in Brooklyn During ‘Knockout Game’ [Video]
New York Police believe that a pregnant woman in Brooklyn may be the latest victim of the "knockout game" after she was randomly sucker punched in Bedford Stuyvesant on Thursday.
The victim, 34-year-old Jannatul Ferdous, was walking with her sister in the Brooklyn neighborhood around 3:45 p.m. on Thursday when her attacker, identified as 33-year-old Willie Stephens, punched her in the head.
Ferdous was knocked unconscious and taken to Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn. Fortunately, neither she nor her child were seriously injured.
Still, she says she and her husband were concerned about their unborn child.
"I was scared and worried about the baby," the Brooklyn mother said, according to the New York Daily News.
"I'm happy he's in jail because he can't hurt anyone else," Ferdous said. "The baby is perfectly fine, and we're going to press charges. He needs to serve his time. We want to stop him from hurting someone else."
Video footage obtained by the New York Post shows Stephens allegedly walking toward Ferdous and her sister and then punching her in what appears to be her face before he walked away.
Her sister called the police who used her description of Stephens to find and arrest him three blocks away from the crime scene.
Police believe the attack may be linked to the infamous "knockout game," in which criminals try to knock random people unconscious with a single blow. Sources say that Stephens did not seem to know the victim.
Stephens, a homeless man who lives in a shelter in East New York, was charged with attempted assault as a hate crime and held on a $25,000 bail.
Prosecutors believe that Stephens targeted the Bangledesh-born woman because she was wearing a burka.
Video of the incident is below.
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