Search intensifies for suspect behind violent Brooklyn mugging

Monday, July 26, 2021
EAST NEW YORK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- The search is intensifying for a suspect behind a violent mugging in Brooklyn.

Surveillance video shows the suspect punching and kicking the victim near Pitkin Avenue and Barbey Street in East New York on Saturday.


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Police say the suspect approached the 68-year-old man who was riding a CitiBike and demanded property.

The suspect ran off with the victim's phone and silver necklace.

The victim suffered a broken wrist, a broken nose, and cuts.

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