IT’S UNCLEAR WHAT LED UP TO THAT
MOMENT BETWEEN THOSE TWO MEN.
>>> WELL, NOW TO THAT RANDOM
ATTACK ON ACTOR STEVE BESCEMI.
THE STAR SUCKER PUNCHED BY A
STRANGER IN KIPS BAY.
"TODAY IN NEW YORK’S" GABY
ACEVEDO HAS THE DETAILS AND A
LOOK AT WHO POLICE ARE SEARCHING
FOR.
GABY?
>> Reporter: GOOD MORNING,
DARLENE, TO YOU, TO MICHAEL AND
TO OUR VIEWERS.
POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR A
SUSPECT AFTER THIS INCIDENT
WHICH HAPPENED RIGHT HERE IN
KIPS BAY LAST WEDNESDAY, AND IT
APPEARS TOSS HAVE BEEN A RANDOM
ATTACK AGAINST ONE OF THE MOST
BELOVED AND APPRECIATED FIGURES
IN NEW YORK CITY.
THIS IS THE MAN THE NYPD IS NOW LOOKING FOR AFTER ASSAULTING
STEVE BESCEMI WITHOUT MINCING
WORDS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT ON THIRD
AVENUE NEAR EAST 27th STREET
DESCRIBED AS CARRYING SOME KIND
OF BOOK BEGUN AND WEARING A
BASEBALL-STYLE CAP.
POLICE SAY THE 66-YEAR-OLD ACTOR
WHO IS A BROOKLYN NATIVE AND
ONCE POSSIBLE A TIME A
FIREFIGHTER WAS JUST STANDING ON
THE STREET AROUND NON-WHEN HE
WAS PUNCHED IN THE FACE.
BUCKS MY WAS TAKEN TO THE
HOSPITAL WHERE HE RECEIVED
ATTENTION FOR BRUISING, SWELLING
AND BLEEDING TO HIS LEFT EYE.
A PUBLICIST SAYS BESCEMI WAS
ANOTHER VICTIM OF A RANDOM
ATTACK OF VIOLENCE IN THE CITY.
HE IS OKAY AND APPRECIATES
EVERYONE’S WELL WISHES AND
INCREDIBLIED A THAT THIS WAS
WHILE WALKING THE SFLEETS OF NEW
YORK.
AT THIS POINT.
POLICE HAVE BEEN LOOKING
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