TIMES SQUARE — An attacker bit a tourist's arm and scratched her neck near a Times Square subway station, the NYPD said.
The 50-year-old woman from Oklahoma was crossing from one side of the 50th Street subway station to the other at the southeast corner of West 50th Street and Eighth Avenue around 3:20 a.m. on July 8 when Nivela Hancock, 25, scratched her neck and bit her left bicep, according to police and a complaint filed with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.
The attack left scratches on the woman's neck, and the bite left her arm bloody, bruised and swollen, the DA’s office said.
When police officers tried to arrest Hancock, she pulled away from them and injured one of the officer's elbows and forearms, the NYPD said.
“She f---ed my man — that’s why she got [attacked],” Hancock told police.
A police report did not indicate that the two women knew each other.
Hancock was charged with two counts of assault, resisting arrest, attempted assault and harassment, the DA’s office said.
She is currently being held at the Rose M. Singer Center on $249 bail and was expected to appear in court on Wednesday, city Department of Correction records show.
An attorney for Hancock did not immediately respond Wednesday to a request for comment.
