Police Seek Woman Accused of Punching Boy on Brooklyn Subway

Police said the boy was riding with his family aboard an A train heading north when a woman came over and asked them for money. After they declined, she allegedly punched him in the chest at about 11:35 a.m. near Euclid and Pitkin avenues in East New York, Brooklyn.

The child was not injured, police said. He and his mother were treated at the scene, according to an account of the incident. The woman left the station after the alleged assault.

Police described the suspect as a Black woman believed to be in her 40s, with curly black hair, a forehead tattoo, a dark short-sleeved shirt and white slip-on shoes. No one had been taken into custody.