The random attack caused Saleh Yahya to fall to the ground and lose consciousness, according to police.
Police are searching for the man who punched an elderly man in Brooklyn on Monday night, causing him to fall to the ground and lose consciousness.
Saleh Yahya had just bought some food, but the next thing he remembers was waking up in the hospital.Yahya, 79, was walking on Flatbush Avenue just before 11 p.m. on Monday when he was approached by a man who kicked him in the face.Yahya was transported to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County Hospital where it was his friend who told him he was pushed.
"That could be somebody's grandfather, somebody's father, somebody's brother," said Brooklyn resident Jean Remarque. "And imagine if I was one ours that this happened to? The elders need to be protected." Yahya told Eyewitness News he doesn't know when he will be released from the hospital, nor does he have any family to take care of him.
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