WILLIAMSBURG — A group of about 10 teen girls hit and threw bleach at a teenager in Williamsburg last week, injuring the victim's eyes, police said.
The female victim, 18, told police she was walking to a deli on Jackson Street near Kingsland Avenue on March 31 around 5 p.m. when a group of about 10 teenage girls approached her, authorities said.
The victim was then hit on the side of the head with a unknown blunt object, and some of the girls threw bleach at the victim's eyes and mouth, police said.
Four people in the group were arrested for assault, police said. All of them, including one 15-year-old girl, were juveniles and were not named, police said.
In a separate incident that occured around the same time, another 16-year-old girl said she was at the same corner when a teenage girl, 15, threw bleach at her, causing her bottom lip to swell and injuring her left eye, police said.
The bleach also damaged the second victim's sweatsuit, worth $130, police said.
It was not clear if the attackers and victims knew each other or if the two incidents were related.
Other notable incidents in the 94th precinct include:
► A man who was walking down North 10th Street was attacked by a group of five men and women in Williamsburg last weekend, police said.
The 32-year-old man said he was walking on North 10th Street near Berry Street on Sunday, April 5 at 2:20 a.m. when four men and one woman across the street started shouting at him, police said.
When the victim shouted back, the group ran across the street and hit him, police said.
The man broke his left arm and had cuts on his right index finger and his chin, police said.
No one has been arrested for the incident. It was unclear if the victim and the group of attackers knew each other.
► A woman who was reading her emails on her phone as she walked home from the subway had it snatched by a passerby, police said.
The woman, 26, was walking on Frost Street near Humboldt Street on Thursday, April 2 around 11 p.m. with her phone in her hand when a man came by and snatched it, police said.
Police are investigating the incident.
► A man returned to his car to find the passenger side window broken and $1,800 worth of property gone, police said.
The man, 41, said he parked his car near Berry Street and North 12th Street on Saturday, April 4 around 8 p.m., police said.
When he returned around 12:50 a.m., the rear passenger side window had been broken, with cash, a Dell computer, a phone charger, hard drive and social security card gone, police said.
No one has been arrested for the incident.
