A New York man has been arrested in alleged connection with several attacks reportedly stemming from the "knockout game."
35-year-old Barry Baldwin of Brooklyn was charged with six counts of assault as a hate crime and six counts of harassment as a hate crime, CNN reported on Saturday, after he was said to have attacked two older women and a mother walking with her daughter, as well as three others.
Authorities alleged that Baldwin punched a 78-year-old woman pushing a stroller on November 9 while he was playing the "knockout game," which calls for the participant to deliver a single sucker punch, leaving the victim out cold on the pavement.
Baldwin reportedly carried out seven assaults between the span of November 9 and December 27 in mostly Jewish areas of Brooklyn, according to New York City Police who spoke with CNN.
On the 7th of December, officials said Baldwin also punched a 20-year-old woman in Brooklyn, then five more women during the week of December 21 and December 27.
Each time, the suspect ran off after punching the women once, mostly in the backs of their heads.
One woman who was punched so badly that she crumpled to the ground instantly was injured on her knees and hands.
NYPD arrested Baldwin on December 29, after hate crimes investigators checked out the sections of the neighborhood where other knockout reports had been filed. Witnesses identified Baldwin in a lineup, CNN reported.
