Dennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
A man accused of assaulting random women in New York City was arrested Tuesday in the series of nonsexual attacks, police said. Daquan Armstead, 31, of East Bronx, was taken into custody on suspicion of hate-motivated assaults on seven women from late March to mid-April in Lower Manhattan, police said. When asked about the allegations while being taken out of the New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force office, Armstead responded, 'They spit at me.
The department released a timeline of alleged attacks: About 8 p.m. March 24, police received a report of a 30-year-old woman who was struck on her face in the Lower East Side, the NYPD said. It was a hard enough hit that it caused dizziness, but she refused medical attention, it said. The next day, shortly after 10 a.m., officers responded a few blocks to the northwest based on a report that a 36-year-old woman was struck on the back, the NYPD said. She also refused medical treatment.
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