CHELSEA — A man punched a pregnant woman, tossed her to the ground, kicked her and told her he was going to kill her baby — all because she didn't thank him for holding the door, according to the victim and NYPD.
"He said, 'I'm going to kick this baby out of your womb,'" victim Lakeeya Walker told DNAinfo New York.
Walker, 22, a NYCHA caretaker at the Elliot Houses, was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital after the March 5 attack at the complex at 428 W. 26th St., police said. Doctors first told her that a blood clot had formed near the fetus's head, but later said she was safe and her pregnancy had survived the attack.
The 28-year-old suspect, who lives at the complex, opened the door for Walker — who seven weeks pregnant — at 10:15 a.m., according to the NYPD and police sources.
When she failed to thank him for opening it, he called her "an ungrateful f--king b---h" and threw a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee in her face, he then picked up the 5-foot 2-inch, 110-pound woman by the neck and started choking her. During the attack, he kicked her in the stomach and crotch after throwing her to the ground as she lay on the ground, she said.
"I was just thinking, try to protect yourself, try to protect yourself," she said. "He was trying to kill my baby."
Walker's supervisor took her to Lenox Hill Hospital after the 10:15 a.m. attack, which left her bruised and scratched and which was caught on surveillance camera, she said.
