TIMES SQUARE — An attacker ripped a homeless teenager’s earrings out and fractured his arm after the two got in a fistfight in Times Square, the NYPD said.
The 18-year-old victim, from Queens, told police he was on the sidewalk in front of a McDonald’s at 1560 Broadway, between West 46th and West 47th streets, around 4:30 a.m. on June 29 when he got into an argument with someone.
The dispute escalated into a fistfight, and the person the teen was fighting with threw a milk crate at him, police said.
The teen blocked the crate with his left arm, which was fractured by the blow, the NYPD said.
At some point during the tussle, the attacker also ripped out the teen’s earrings, police said.
The unknown assailant then fled the scene, and the teen — who told police he was homeless — was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he became “uncooperative,” the NYPD said.
Police said the victim refused to give police a description of the person who attacked him.
