NYC Radio: 1010WINS Reporter To Be OK After Brutal Assault

 

Skiboky Stora, right, is alleged to have punched 1010WINS' Kelly Dillon

Kelly Dillon (real name: Halley Kate McGookin), a 1010 WINS reporter, is the latest woman to take to TikTok to reveal she was the victim of a random attack on New York City streets.

“They grabbed my hair so tightly and literally body-slammed me onto the pavement,” Dillon, a 20-year news veteran and traffic reporter, says in the video.

She decries the assault she endured in Manhattan last week as just the latest in a growing trend of violence targeting women in the city, according to The NY Daily News.

“I want to warn females about the dangers in the streets of New York City right now,” Dillon said in a 22-minute video she posted to TikTok on Saturday. “There are many crimes being committed, random acts, random attacks on females on the streets. It’s not going away and it’s not getting any better and it’s getting much, much worse.”

The 40-year-old Dillon was on King St. near the radio broadcaster’s Hudson St. headquarters in Hudson Square a few minutes into Wednesday when she felt a man grab her hair and throw her to the pavement, she said on TikTok.

Her head and elbow — where she said her bone was visible through the wound — were struck in the fall. Paramedics took the reporter to the Lenox Hill Healthplex for treatment.

Dillon’s attacker fled west toward Hudson St. in what she called a shameless display of cowardice. “He ran off, of course, like a coward,” Dillon said on TikTok.

Police confirmed a woman was thrown by her hair into a concrete planter at that time and location.

TikTok users have sounded the alarm on the frightening trend this year as multiple women took to the social media platform to share stories of being attacked without provocation on the city’s streets.