NYC mother beaten in viral subway attack video reveals injuries, blasts mayor

The mother who was brutally beaten by a homeless man in a New York City subway station revealed one of her injuries during an interview on Tuesday – a gash to her right eye so severe she may lose sight in it.

Elizabeth Gomes, a 33-year-old airport security guard and mother of five, told the New York Post on Tuesday that the city “needs major help” because “we’re going through a lot here.”

“I remember hearing that they would have cops posted on platforms, riding the trains, cops down in a subway. Mayor Adams said especially in the subway,’’ she said.

Victim of brutal NYC subway attack reveals gruesome injuries, rips into Mayor Adams https://t.co/9o7NtiTnQI pic.twitter.com/sVkAI03ysv

— New York Post (@nypost) September 27, 2022

Gomes was on her way to work at JFK airport in the early morning of Sep. 20 when she was followed off the train at the Howard Beach station by a homeless man she had ignored during her trip.

Horrifying surveillance camera footage showed the suspect, 41-year-old Waheed Foster – who had been arrested as a teen for killing his own grandmother – grabbing Gomes, throwing her into a ticket booth and begin to kick and beat her on the ground.

This was posted to Reddit from the Howard Beach–JFK Airport station in Queens. I believe it was recorded very recently. pic.twitter.com/RoqHar325c

— Crime in NYC (@CrimeInNYC) September 24, 2022

She told The Post that she wandered around the station for 20 minutes looking for help. The attendant who was manning the booth was on a bathroom break, according to MTA officials.

“Obviously, the government or nobody is doing anything for us,’’ the married mother said in a separate interview with her husband earlier that day.

“When we’re out there, we’re by ourselves, we’re fighting these battles by ourselves, and what they do, they go try to help other countries that have nothing to do with what we’re going through in our own place,” she added, later clarifying that “they” refers to “the mayor, the governor.”

“Like Eric Adams, our mayor, going to Puerto Rico,’’ she said, referring to the mayor’s weekend trip to what he referred to as the city’s “sixth borough.”

Her husband, Clement Tucker, expressed outrage at the lack of security and her wife’s condition.

“Look at my wife’s eyes?” Tucker said. “She can’t see nothing out of her eyes.”

Gomes reportedly may lose sight in her right eye and has unknown medical costs ahead. She has said in multiple interviews that she is now afraid to leave her house.

“I don’t even want to take the train. You know, I love my job so much, and part of me, like, doesn’t want to go back because I’m scared,” she said.