New images have been released of the brute suspected of stomping a 61-year-old Chinese man into a coma, the latest in a series of anti-Asian attacks.
The NYPD circulated surveillance footage late Sunday showing the suspect wearing a baseball cap and black jacket and talking to a person at a deli about an hour after the beatdown. He was also seen walking on the street.
Yao Pan Ma was attacked from behind around 8:20 p.m. Friday as he collected cans at 3rd Avenue and 125th Street, authorities said.
The suspect repeatedly kicked him in the head while he was down, cops said.
He is listed in critical but stable condition at Harlem Hospital and has been placed in a medically induced coma.
The man suspected of assaulting Yao Pan Ma is seen in a new surveillance video still. DCPIThe victim’s wife, Baozhen Chen, 57, told The Post on Sunday she fears her husband might not survive.
Yao Pan Ma is in a coma as a result of the attack. ProvidedChen, 57, said her husband was a talented pastry chef in China — where their two children still live — and came to the US two years ago for a better life.
Baozhen Chen fears that her husband may not survive the attack. G.N.Miller/NYPostBut after losing his job at a Chinese restaurant in Lower Manhattan in September, he began collecting cans to help make ends meet.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident, which comes amid a recent rash of crimes against Asian victims in the city and beyond.
