A person has been arrested in connection to the brutal baseball bat assault in NYC final week — and cops say it seems to be completely random … as a result of the suspect and sufferer had been complete strangers.
36-year-old Karim Azizi was hauled in by the NYPD Wednesday morning on three completely different costs — assault, tried assault and legal possession of a weapon. Of course, Azizi is the person cops suspect was behind the brutal assault that was captured on digital camera.
Law enforcement sources inform us the perp and sufferer had been complete strangers, and that the beating appears to have come out of nowhere, regardless of some believing it might have been focused at first. A warrant squad, we’re instructed, picked Azizi up at his Hamilton Heights house.
Our sources additionally say … the video of the incident assisted in capturing him.
As we reported … the sufferer was strolling on the sidewalk minding their very own enterprise, when out of the blue — the attacker pulls a bat out and hits the sufferer behind the top.
It appeared just like the attacker may swing once more whereas the sufferer was down, however he walked away. The sufferer was hospitalized with a laceration and bruises, and was left in steady situation.