Police have identified a suspect in the case of the brutal beating of a 60-year-old woman on the New York City subway – a 43-year-old man with at least nine other arrests.

Named at a press conference by the city’s top transit cop, Norton Blake’s background list reportedly ranges from drug possession and assault to trespassing and resisting violence. arrest.

He remains at large, NYPD Transportation Chief Michael Kemper told reporters on Tuesday, nearly four days after victim Laurell Reynolds was filmed being beaten with his own cane by a man believed to be Blake. .

Within days, the two-minute clip went viral, sparking a search for the man in the footage after he managed to flee before cops arrived.

The attack took place shortly before 3:30 a.m. Friday, as Reynolds – who resides in the Bronx – walked through the train station at West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem. In the comments to The New York PostReynolds’ daughter revealed she only learned of the assault after seeing the video online.

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Cops have identified Norton Blake, 43, as the sole suspect in Friday’s attack, which happened at a West Harlem train station around 3:30 a.m. and was caught on video.

Laurell Reynolds was filmed being brutalized with her own cane by a man believed to be Blake.

“Now I know,” recalled Lashanne Reese, 41, also from the Bronx, after wondering why her mother never came to her apartment for a party she was throwing on Saturday, after leaving her house. go home and change.

Of the harrowing footage – which appeared to have been filmed from inside a subway tollbooth – she said: “I’m hurt – it hurts”.

“This man could have killed my mother,” she added, as her mother remains hospitalized and appears to be in stable condition.

“You haven’t done anything. I have a problem with that.

As Reese suggested, no one on the rig stepped in to help his mother during the attack — which many have since speculated was filmed by an MTA employee.

On Tuesday, shortly after Kemper revealed officers were ‘looking for’ Blake, MTA President Janno Lieber said he was unsure who filmed the incident instead of helping Reynolds , and that he did not “know the details of what had happened”. ‘

He, however, maintained that workers employed by the taxpayer-funded agency were instructed to call both New York police and the Railroad Control Center in the event of a potential crime.

Kemper said a call reporting an assault at the station came in around 3:30 a.m., but by the time officers answered, the suspect had already left.

The timeline for this sequence of events was not provided on Tuesday – but Kemper hinted that officers from his forces were close to making an arrest.

The beatings – which began after Blake snatched the woman’s cane from her hands – continued as she fell to the ground, and shocked thousands across the city and country due to their protracted nature and relentless.

Insiders reportedly said that Blake, while on the run, was well known to law enforcement – and had previous arrests for drug possession, trespassing, resisting arrest, tampering with evidence, possession of property stolen and assault of two police officers in 2003 and 2017.

You can see the suspect hitting her with the cane on the head, stomach, legs, arms, hands and back, eventually breaking the cane. Speaking to the New York Post, her daughter said she wasn’t sure why she was driving to Manhattan from the Bronx so late at night.

At no time were transit personnel or police present to notice or attempt to stop the brutal beating, which appears to have been filmed from inside the station’s toll booth. City workers said they don’t know who took the footage.

“We are looking for him and I am confident that shortly he will be arrested and charged for this assault,” Kemper assured reporters after revealing that Blake was their only suspect.

About how the altercation initially unfolded, the senior police officer said he and others believed the suspect and Reynolds had engaged in some sort of argument as the victim walked through one of the police station stairs.

“A witness (said) they were arguing over something that might have fallen,” Kemper said, saying it was still unclear if the two knew each other.

“He may have helped her up something on the steps and something may have fallen off, which led to them having an argument,” he theorized.

The argument quickly turned into one of the most heinous assaults on the system in recent memory, during which Blake allegedly punched Reynolds in the head, stomach, leg, arms, back and hands. .

Local law enforcement sources further told the Post that Blake, while on the run, was well known to law enforcement — and had previous arrests for drug possession, assault, trespassing, resisting arrest , tampering with evidence and possession of stolen property.

New York Police Chief Michael Kemper named the suspect at a press conference on Tuesday, while sources said he had a long list of backgrounds ranging from drug possession and from assaults to trespassing and resisting arrest. The senior policeman said on Tuesday that officers were still trying to make an arrest.

Shortly after Kemper revealed the officer was ‘looking for’ Blake, MTA Chairman Janno Lieber (pictured) said he was not sure who filmed the attack and that he would not “did not know the details of what had happened”. The case, which comes amid a series of violent incidents, is ongoing.

Two of the assault offenses saw the suspect punch other NYPD officers, insiders said — one in 2017 while resisting arrest and another in 2003 where he punched an officer in the face while off duty.

Unsure why his mother had traveled to Harlem, Reese lamented the situation to the Post — and how neither the witness nor the person who filmed the footage stepped in to help.

“We are meant to be a loving and caring community. It’s unity in community – if we put unity in it, we get a whole community,” Reese said.

“So they don’t do this…that’s why this is happening everywhere,” she continued. “Everywhere it happens because there is no unity in our community.”

Of the suspect, she tearfully said: He needs help – No, he shouldn’t be on the street.

“He just attacked my mother and beat her with a cane. He has no place in the street.

Subway crime has been considered one of the city’s major crises and although statistics show that transit offenses are down slightly, even progressive Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has said last month that he feared for his family when they rode the subway.

“I know the stats that crime on public transport is down, but when a family member gets on the train, I too have a lump in my stomach,” he said. FOX 5 News asked about the perception that the metro system is becoming more and more dangerous.

“I live here, I raise my family here, so we still have a lot of work to do,” he added.

Major crime fell 9.9% in the metro in July, according to city statistics.