The Queens mom savagely beaten by a ranting homeless man at a Howard Beach subway station confirmed for the first time that she will lose her eye because of the attack.
“I’m going to be blind in my right eye now,” said Elizabeth Gomes. “The nerve system is completely damaged and the eye is just deflating.”
Gomes, 33, said she is scheduled to meet with a specialist at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary on Feb. 13 to learn the next steps in getting a prosthetic eye.
“I mean honestly, I still wake up everyday and I still can’t believe it. I still think to myself ‘Wow I lost my vision at 33 years of age while I was just going to work. How can my life ever be the same,’ ” Gomes said.
Her life tragically changed shortly after 5 a.m. Sept. 20 as she got off the subway at the Howard Beach A train station on her way to her security guard job at Kennedy Airport.
A man who had been ranting about the devil hit her over the head with a bottle and then chased her before throwing her into the side of a token booth and then repeatedly pummeling and stomping on her.
The stomach-churning assault, which was caught on video, shows a good Samaritan trying to help, but being chased away by the assailant as the attack continues.
Waheed Foster, 42, was indicted in September on attempted murder and assault charges.
Foster, who killed his own grandmother when he was 14, had been arrested weeks earlier for violating parole in another case, but was let go thanks to state reform laws.
Gomes has been unable to return to work and still fears being around groups of people. She lives with her mother and fiancee, Clement Tucker, and their 3-year-old son. She has two other children, ages 10 and 12, and Tucker has two.
22 comments:
Very sad story and I wish her well !
But most New Yorkers voted for this.
Maybe Tiffany Caban can donate her eyeball?
Poor woman going to work trying to support her family. This fucking animal should be exterminated like a cockroach on a cupboard. This animal has been in and out of the criminal justice system if you can call it that numerous times.
The deck is stacked against you if you are a hardworking law abiding citizens in this cesspool state. The losers in Albany give more rights to these animal criminals then they do to victims. Everyone of them has blood on their hands.
But don't worry mayor Swagger says it's just perception that crime is out of control. I worked with this phony and racist loser and he is in way over his head. His answer for everything in the NYPD was play the race card. Never had a answer then and he doesn't have one now. Great job your doing just keep blaming whitey for your problems.
Elections have consequences. And boy did he bamboozle the people of this city to vote for him. He was though on crime when he was running, doesn't seem so though on crime now. It has always been about Eric and what's in it for me.
@“ A man who had been ranting about the devil hit her over the head with a bottle”
There’s a Q-Anon type that rants about the devil here as well. I wonder …
Latest TDS Claims are really getting old with all the truth comming out about Hiden.
It Lurks in the Air said...
Your children are being indoctrinated. Hence read all the TDS posted here and on most sites.
Conservatives must demand an end to the indoctrination of our youth or face a new American public taught since childhood that the country shouldn’t exist.
Leftist want to destroy like the devil.
Stay strong in God and you can't go wrong
If only he had a gun, he could have shot more victims.
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@“” @“ A man who had been ranting about the devil hit her over the head with a bottle””
Well, that was the NY Post. They probably made up that part of the story. Plus a few other parts too.
Sad story, but Mayor Swagger says it’s just perception
Agreed Anon 1. People either voted for it or stayed home
New Yorkers who voted for these Leftist DA's deserve everything bad that happens to them. Just like California.
How in the world do New Yorkers continue to vote overwhelmingly for democrats? Someone here Pleeeeeease explain this to me.
I’ll go out on a limb here:
The crime situation in these cities is about to get WORSE!
A conservative is a liberal who got mugged.
People are too lazy or witless to fix Dem cities.
Crime,corruption, murdering, war, WHO,WEF,NATO,UNO,EUROP UNION , Justice ..all illusion...it's EVIL..
You get the government you deserve. Enjoy!
Kathy "Crime Wave" Hochul owns this.
Listen to Me said...
Product of America's "NEW" Commie Soros legal system along with it's moral decay! You are witnessing America's future....Live and in color!!.....Is everybody happy???
What we need is more guns, so everyone can shoot each other, just like in the Wild West.
How many more victims will it take for someone to realize there is a problem? Keep on voting blue.
@Kitara said... Get Back on your meds...
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