Subway Musician Attacked with Metal Bottle: "I Can't Do This Anymore"

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Cellist and medical student Iain Forrest, 27, was attacked in the New York City subway for the second time in less than a year while performing, this time being bludgeoned over the head with a water bottle by an unidentified woman at the Herald Square station. The incident, caught on video, has led Forrest to suspend his subway performances indefinitely. The Metropolitan Transit Authority condemned the attack, and police are searching for the perpetrator. Forrest, known as "Eyeglasses," is a member of the MTA's Music Under New York program and is completing his MD-PhD studies at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine.
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