Steve Buscemi was the sufferer of a “random act of violence” in New York Metropolis final week. The actor was strolling within the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan simply earlier than midday on Could 8 when an unidentified assailant punched him within the face.
Based on the New York Put up, the assault was unprovoked and the person who punched him fled the scene. Police are looking for the alleged assailant, who was bearded and sporting a baseball cap, a blue T-shirt, and black sweatpants. Following the assault, Buscemi was taken to Bellevue Hospital to be examined, and reportedly suffered swelling to his face and left eye.
“Steve Buscemi was assaulted in Mid-City [sic] Manhattan, one other sufferer of a random act of violence within the metropolis,” his publicist mentioned in an announcement. “He’s OK and appreciates everybody’s properly needs, although extremely unhappy for everybody that this has occurred to him whereas additionally strolling the streets of New York.”
TMZ obtained a photograph of the 66-year-old on Monday, who may very well be seen with a blackened left eye almost every week after the assault,
The timing of the assault comes only a month after Buscemi’s Boardwalk Empire co-star Michael Stuhlbarg was additionally allegedly attacked by a 27-year-old unhoused man whereas jogging close to Central Park. The person reportedly threw a rock at Stuhlbarg, which hit him on the again of the neck. Nevertheless, in that incident, the Physician Unusual actor chased the person to the close by Russian consulate the place he was arrested by police.
Stuhlbarg suffered a bruise to his neck on account of the incident however declined medical consideration.