Woman randomly punched by man in DC speaks out: 'It's a lot of fear'

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A D.C. woman tells FOX 5 she’s still terrified after she says a man randomly punched her while she was walking near a Smithsonian Museum in Northeast.

She spoke exclusively with FOX’s Shomari Stone, saying she’s still shaken up from the incident. 

"[I’m] just really scared and anxious. I haven't gone out of the house by myself since the incident, so it's been almost a week and it's just a lot of paranoia, anxiety. I find myself hyperventilating when I try to go out, so it's a lot of fear," the victim told FOX 5.

She says she was walking with her husband near the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum on Massachusetts Avenue, NE, last Wednesday around 1 p.m. when the man ran up to her and sucker punched her from behind, causing her to fall on the sidewalk.

Another woman witnessed what happened from her car and recorded cell phone video of the alleged attacker.

In the video, you can see the woman who was sucker punched in the distance wearing a light blue hooded sweatshirt, holding her head. 

"I saw this man turn towards the couple and punch the woman in the face really hard. It looked like he punched her temple and she immediately fell and grabbed her head and the man just continued to scream and turned around and started screaming at the cars," the witness said. "That was the point in which I pulled out my camera and started recording him."

FOX 5 is not revealing the man’s identity because D.C. police have not named him a suspect or charged him with the crime.

Both women say the man then took off running on Massachusetts Avenue toward Union Station. 

Anyone with information on the incident should call police.