A man armed with a metal pipe was arrested after a violent spree that involved attacking two women and a 15-year-old girl in the Bronx early Wednesday, just a week after being released from custody for a different assault case.
Jeremiah White, 23, is said to have commenced his series of assaults at 5:20 a.m. when he confronted a 46-year-old woman near West 175th Street and University Avenue, shouting “you hit my mom” before striking her repeatedly with a pipe and delivering several punches, according to an NYPD representative.
The victim, identified as Virginia Alvarez, a nurse at BronxCare Health, was heading to work when the shocking attack left her with a head injury and facial bruises, as reported by News 12.
“He just kept punching me and punching me, I couldn’t get him to stop,” Alvarez shared with the media from her hospital bed at St. Barnabas, where her condition was reported as stable.
Shortly after, White allegedly targeted the teen victim, yelling “watch out!” before striking her on the back of the head with the pipe while she was walking along Louis Nine Boulevard in Crotona Park East just after 7:20 a.m., according to police.
The young girl was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where she was also reported to be in stable condition.
More than two hours later, at 9:55 a.m., White purportedly assaulted a 54-year-old woman, striking her in the face with a closed fist outside an apartment complex on Franklin Avenue in Claremont, police noted.
White was detained at 10:25 a.m. and faces charges of two counts of felony assault and one count of misdemeanor assault.
With a history of four previous arrests, White had been taken into custody on October 7 and charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly hitting a 17-year-old girl at the 174th Street Station in the Bronx on September 12.
However, he was released shortly after his arraignment, and it remains unclear whether he was granted supervised release.
White is expected to return to court on November 18 for the September assault case.
The Bronx District Attorney’s Office has yet to respond to requests for comment from The Post.
