“Knockout Game ” Comes to Bergen County
Hackensack store’s surveillance video shows ‘knockout’ assault suspect
AUGUST 20, 2014, 7:39 PM LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014, 12:40 AM
BY JEFF GREEN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
HACKENSACK — A video of a man’s sudden, vicious attack on a passer-by in what city police warn may be among the first local incidents of the “knockout game” was released from a store surveillance camera Wednesday.
The athletically built assailant is recorded walking coolly into a convenience store. Four minutes later, he strolls outside, empty-handed and with the same demeanor. But in a burst of violence, he slugs a man he encounters in the face, causing the man to instantly fall to the ground.
The video was released by the Simple Simon Market on Essex Street as city police continued to search for the assailant and advised residents to be alert. The black-and-white film shows one of three separate assaults by the same man Monday night within less than 15 minutes in the areas of Essex Street, Summit Avenue and Beech Street. Police said the victims were two men in their 50s and another in his 20s. None was badly injured, police said initially.
Police did not return calls seeking comment about the investigation’s progress Wednesday. Councilman Leo Battaglia said Wednesday night that police are working hard to apprehend the assailant.
“Pretty soon we’re going to catch the person doing this, and he will be punished to the extent of the law,” he said.
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