Detectives need the public’s help in finding a man who threw liquid at a 13-year-old girl’s face and burned her in Ozone Park on Tuesday afternoon in an assault now being investigated as a hate crime.
Law enforcement sources said the incident occurred at 3:25 p.m. on Oct. 24 after the victim departed a Q10 bus at the corner of Lefferts Boulevard and 101st Avenue.
Seconds later, she was approached by the perpetrator, whom police described as a bald black man in his 30s with a dark complexion and wearing a red shirt, a dark hooded sweatshirt, royal blue pants and tan-and-brown boots.
Authorities said the man threw an unidentified liquid at the victim’s face, then made an anti-white remark at the girl. The victim managed to take a cell phone picture of the suspect before he fled on foot northbound on Lefferts Boulevard toward 97th Avenue.
Law enforcement sources said the incident occurred at 3:25 p.m. on Oct. 24 after the victim departed a Q10 bus at the corner of Lefferts Boulevard and 101st Avenue.
Seconds later, she was approached by the perpetrator, whom police described as a bald black man in his 30s with a dark complexion and wearing a red shirt, a dark hooded sweatshirt, royal blue pants and tan-and-brown boots.
Authorities said the man threw an unidentified liquid at the victim’s face, then made an anti-white remark at the girl. The victim managed to take a cell phone picture of the suspect before he fled on foot northbound on Lefferts Boulevard toward 97th Avenue.