Police are seeking a violent couple who used a screwdriver and an umbrella to pummel a fellow city bus passenger and the driver in The Bronx, cops said.
The two boarded the BX29 in front of 500 City island Ave. on Jan. 23 and were near Bruckner Expressway and Pelham Parkway around 1 p.m. when the woman began arguing with a 24-year-old female passenger and hit her on the head with a screwdriver, cops said.
When the driver pulled over, the woman’s male accomplice dragged the passenger off the bus by her hair and ordered the 56-year-old behind to wheel to keep driving.
But the driver refused to do so, prompting the violent man to hit him in the side of the head with an umbrella before the duo jumped off the bus.
The driver and passenger were taken to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition.
The woman was last seen wearing a blue and white baseball cap, a black jacket with a fur-lined hood, a black and white striped shirt and gray sweatpants.
The man wore a black baseball cap, a black jacket, a white hooded sweater and dark-colored jeans.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).