Manhattan

4-Year-Old Boy Cut on Neck in Brazen Manhattan Chain Snatching

No other injuries were reported

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Police are looking for a man they say snatched a chain off a 4-year-old boy's neck in a Manhattan building over the weekend, leaving the child with a small laceration.

The boy was in a residential building near West 183rd Street and Audobon Avenue around noon Saturday when the stranger attacked him.

No other injuries were reported.

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Police released a surveillance image of the suspect (above). Anyone with information about him is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.

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