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NY Post
New York Post
7 Oct 2023


NextImg:NYC Whole Foods attack victim is ‘still pulling glass out of body’

A woman who was smashed in the head by a bottle-wielding maniac on a violent rampage at Whole Foods in Midtown said the attack left her covered in blood with a severed earlobe, staples in her scalp and “pulling glass out of my body.” 

“I found myself lying in blood not having any idea it was mine,” Cassidy Arkin told The Post Saturday.

“My scalp is stapled back together, and my earlobe is now glued together,” the Harlem resident said.

Cassidy Arkin, 49, after she was one of three people randomly attacked at the Bryant Park Whole Foods Thursday.
William C Lopez/New York Post

“I’m still pulling glass out of my body. It’s been a lot.”

Arkin, 49, was at the grocery store on Sixth Avenue across from Bryant Park when Michael Howell allegedly bashed her with a bottle on the second floor around 6:45 p.m. Thursday.

“Mental illness is rampant,” Arkin said.

“If I can’t go into Whole Foods and be safe, then where can I go? It’s a horrible feeling and now I have the scars to go with it.”

Michael Howell, 33, allegedly bashed three people with a bottle inside Whole Foods, on the street outside and on a nearby subway.
James Messerschmidt for NY Post
Michael Howell was charged with three counts of assault and held on $150,000 bail.
James Messerschmidt for NY Post

Howell first assaulted a 23-year-old man outside the store, authorities said.

He then is accused of going inside and hitting Arkin with the bottle.

After that, he allegedly went to a subway station at 46th Street and Sixth Avenue and hit a 55-year-old woman on a train.

Howell was nabbed on 46th Street and charged with three counts of assault.

Another victim is treated in an ambulance outside the store.
William C Lopez/New York Post

He was held on $150,000 bail.

Arkin said she needed time to heal.

“I need to rest and recover,” she said.

“I am very shook up by what happened.”

Howell has been busted at least eight previous times, and was arrested for a string of thefts and another assault in August, police sources said.