Gravesande yelled at the victim before throwing the suspected acid.
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A woman accused of burning the face of a hospital worker with a caustic liquid amid an argument in a Brooklyn subway station in 2022, the suspect was apprehended more than 900 miles away in Georgiarevealed the police.
Identified as Rodlin Gravesande33, was followed to Atlanta, where she lives, on Jan. 3 for the unprovoked attack at the Winthrop St. station in Brooklyn.
The defendant was extradited to Brooklyn on Friday night, where authorities charged her with twisted and unprovoked assault.
Gravesande was at the station at 1:00 a.m. on December 2 when he began yelling at his 21-year-old victim, who had just gotten off a No. 2 heading south, officials reported. The station is a few blocks from Kings County Hospital, where the young woman worked.
When the hospital worker was going to the stairs, the suspect ran up and splashed the acid on her, burning the woman’s facebefore running away.
Officials did not immediately say what the caustic liquid was.
The victim was transported to Kings County Hospital and later taken to the burn unit at Jacobi Medical Center in The Bronx with first and second degree burns.the officials said.
The worker managed to obtain images of Gravesande moments before the attack, so that the authorities were able to identify her, reported New York Post.
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