- because the pair offered 'conflicting accounts' New York City cops let the suspect accused of beating a 60-year-old woman with her own cane walk free after interviewing him at the scene of the heinous attack.
Norton Blake, 43, was named by NYPD officials as the sole suspect in the attack on Laurell Reynolds, which occurred early Friday inside a Harlem subway station.
Officers questioned Blake but let him go without arresting him after he and Reynolds offered conflicting accounts of the attack, the New York Post reported.
The officers' handling of Blake at the scene is now under investigation, sources said. An NYPD spokesman did not comment when reached by DailyMail.com.
The victim Reynolds, who uses a walker, voiced her outrage, telling the Post in a bedside interview: 'They should've arrested him!'