(The Associated Press circulated the following on September 9.)
PHILADELPHIA — Police in Philadelphia are looking for a hammer-wielding man who attacked another man dozing in a subway car.
Video from a surveillance camera shows a man boarding the subway just after midnight on Thursday with a young child about 5 years old.
Detective Kenneth Roach says it appears that the man kissed the child, then told him to sit down.
After that, the man reached into a backpack he was carrying, pulled out a hammer and began attacking another man sitting nearby, dozing off while listening to a digital media player.
The attack spilled onto the subway platform and lasted for several minutes.
Roach says the victim escaped with relatively minor injuries from what appears to have been an unprovoked attack.
No arrests have been made.