--- description: A man attacked a woman with a bag of feces on the streets of New York City earlier this week, for no apparent reason title: Man Attacks Woman With Bag of Feces in New York City image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Man Assaults Woman With Bag of Feces in New York City by [Rosalie Chan](/author/rosalie-chan/) ## Rosalie Chan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 15, 2023 12:00 AM CUTPublished: Jul 1, 2016 1:36 PM CUT by [Rosalie Chan](/author/rosalie-chan/) ## Rosalie Chan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 15, 2023 12:00 AM CUTPublished: Jul 1, 2016 1:36 PM CUT A man who attacked a woman with a bag of feces on the streets of [New York City](http://time.com/3907862/transgender-woman-subway-tracks/?iid=sr-link4 "undefined") earlier this week has been taken into police custody. At 6 p.m. on Monday, a 27-year-old-woman walked down East 74th Street, near First Avenue. There, a man followed her, and he then grabbed her waist from behind and shoved a bag of feces down her shorts. Then the suspect pushed her into a nearby driveway. He pulled off a glove and flung it into the street before fleeing, [the New York _Daily News_ reports.](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/man-shoves-bag-feces-woman-shorts-upper-east-side-article-1.2693508 "undefined") The attacker, a 42-year-old man, was found at a homeless shelter in Brooklyn, [_USA Today_ reports](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/07/01/man-feces-attack-shoved-feces-down-womans-pants-nyc-arrested-new-york-city-crime/86589740/ "undefined"). Charges are pending. [Police](http://time.com/4389911/baltimore-police-use-of-force-policy-sanctity-of-life-freddie-gray/?iid=sr-link7 "undefined") say the woman and the suspect are apparent strangers. After the incident, the woman’s mother and boyfriend brought clean clothes, and she changed in a building next door. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4391041/new-york-city-feces-attack/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4391041/new-york-city-feces-attack/"},"headline":"Man Assaults Woman With Bag of Feces in New York City","datePublished":"2016-07-01T13:36:46.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-15T00:00:18.000Z","description":"The attacker has been arrested","url":"https://time.com/4391041/new-york-city-feces-attack/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","local"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rosalie Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rosalie-chan/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4391041/new-york-city-feces-attack/","name":"Man Assaults Woman With Bag of Feces in New York City"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Video Shows Man Attacking Woman With Bag of Feces","description":"A man was arrested after attacking a woman with a bag of feces in the Upper East Side in New York City.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/T8PbpQaW/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-07-01T12:59:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/T8PbpQaW.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4391041/new-york-city-feces-attack/","duration":"PT15S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4391041/new-york-city-feces-attack/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```