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"Somebody hit me very badly in the back of my head, really badly, like the roof fell down on the back of my head."

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Staten Island woman fears she was the victim of the "Knockout Game" after a young man sucker-punched her as she rode a city bus.

Kat, 58, boarded the S76 bus at Tompkinsville just before 5 p.m. Thursday, and was heading to the East Shore from work when the alleged assault took place.

She spoke to the Advance on condition that her full name be withheld, as she feared retaliation.

An NYPD spokeswoman confirmed that the alleged assault took place at about 5 p.m., near the intersection of Vanderbilt Avenue and Targee Street.

Kat was initially standing on the crowded, rush-hour bus, but found an open seat, and once sitting, became engrossed in her cell phone.

She had noticed a group of about seven or eight teenage boys and girls behind her, and at one point, she heard them singing or chanting something that sounded like, "dun dun da dun dun da," but, as she described it Sunday night, "My nose was in the phone the whole time... I was interested in the vote from Scotland."

A few moments later, she said, "Somebody hit me very badly in the back of my head, really badly, like the roof fell down on the back of my head."

Kat called out, asking who hit her and why, and ran after the group of youths, she said. At one point, she recalled, a girl in the group scolded one of the boys for hitting her, saying, "Why did you slap this lady with no reason? This is rude."

The boy mumbled a response, then slowed crossed the street.

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Woman, 58, punched on city bus, fears she was victim of 'Knockout Game'