ER nurse beaten with cane in unprovoked attack inside Bronx subway station
Police released images of a suspect in the attack on a 53-year-old woman inside a Bronx subway station. (NYPD)
An emergency room nurse heading home from her shift over the weekend was brutally beaten with a cane inside a Bronx subway station in an unprovoked attack, police said Monday.
Irina Langdon, 53, was on the mezzanine in the 149th St.-Grand Concourse No. 4 line station about 11:45 p.m. on Saturday when a man attacked her without warning, cops said. He struck her multiple times with a cane in the head, arms and ribs.Two Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers called 911, and Langdon was taken to the emergency room at Lincoln Hospital — where she had been working earlier in the night in the pediatric department. The attacker ran out of the station and is being sought by police.
Irina Langdon is pictured on break while working at the Javits Center in Manhattan during the initial coronavirus outbreak. Langdon was assaulted with a cane in an unprovoked attack inside a Bronx subway station on Saturday, July 4. (Courtesy of Diana Lee)
“She definitely remembers the attack. I think her memory of how the guy looked was a little fuzzy because she was in shock,” said Lee. “Now we’re just trying to figure out a way to provide her with something she can use to keep herself safe. In New York, there are so many limitations. Taser, pepper spray — you’re not allowed to use any of those.”
Police released surveillance photos of the suspect wielding the cane, his shirt apparently spattered with blood. He’s believed to be between 30 and 40.
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Lee said her mother was put in the emergency room with a patient who had also just been beaten with a cane. That assault happened in front of the hospital moments before the assault on Langdon, the daughter said.
Landgon has been at her Lincoln Hospital job throughout the pandemic as an essential worker, and sometimes needs to take late-night subway commutes home to the apartment she shares with Lee in the Bronx’s Pelham Parkway neighborhood.
Even as subway ridership fell by as much as 93% during the coronavirus pandemic, train assaults like the one on Langdon continued.
The NYPD recorded 148 felony assaults on the subway during the first five months of 2020, a dip of just 8% from the 161 felony assaults reported on the subway during the same stretch of 2019.
“This is the second time she was attacked,” Lee said of her mother.
Lee then described the first assault, saying, “She was on the subway, on her phone, going to work, and she felt something hit her head. People basically told her that a guy walked up to her and smashed his elbow onto her head.”
Anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
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