MANHATTAN — A man was arrested Saturday for a pair of subway attacks at the 34th Street-Herald Square station, including punching a woman in the face and beating a straphanger with a pipe, NYPD officials said.
Daniel Evans, 45, who can be seen in surveillance footage released Saturday, first got into an argument with a 23-year-old man about 10:45 a.m. on April 22 at the station before pulling out a pipe and striking the victim in the left forearm, police said. He then fled the location.
In the second incident, on May 4 at 7:30 a.m., Evans randomly punched a 30-year-old woman in the side of the head as she was walking along the F train platform at the Herald Square station, causing bruising and swelling, the NYPD said. She refused medical attention at the scene.
He was spotted in a restricted area of the subway station on Saturday and taken into custody, police said.
Evans was charged with two counts of assault and one count of criminal trespassing, the NYPD said.
