Officials Identify Woman Attacked in New York Park
The still-unconscious victim of a daylight beating near a Central Park playground was identified Friday as a talented pianist who played “with her heart” and dreamed of performing at Carnegie Hall.
The 32-year-old woman’s name was not released by authorities, however, because she may have been sexually assaulted in the attack three days ago.
Two of the victim’s sisters and their husbands were at her hospital bedside, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said Friday. She was in “critical, life-threatening” condition at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Giuliani said.
No arrests had been made, but police were still looking for a suspect, questioning the woman’s relatives, friends and music students, and examining her belongings for any connections to a man witnesses saw standing over her bloodied body.
The woman was found Tuesday afternoon in a well-trafficked section of the park.
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