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D'yan Forest, 89-year-old known as world's oldest female comedian, sucker-punched in Manhattan attack: NYPD

The NYPD is hunting for a suspect after D'yan Forest, an 89-year-old woman known for being the oldest female comedian in the world, was randomly punched in the face in Manhattan on July 10.

NEW YORK- Police are searching for a suspect after yet another shocking, seemingly random crime on the streets of New York City, this one seeing an 89-year-old woman punched in the face. Authorities say that a woman, seen dressed in a Jurassic Park outfit in surveillance footage, sucker-punched D'yan in the right eye on July 10 outside of the Equinox gym along 7th Avenue in the West Village. Forest, who turns 90 in two weeks, was treated at the hospital that night and is now home recovering.

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