Crime
VIDEO: Man throws random woman onto NYC subway tracks
The video, released Monday by the NYPD, shows a man with a white tank top, red backpack and backwards baseball cap grabbing the victim and violently throwing her toward the train tracks at the Jackson Avenue station around 4:45 p.m. on Sunday
June 8, 2022 8:29am
Updated: June 8, 2022 10:02am
New York City authorities shared video footage of a man shoving a 52-year-old woman off the platform of a Bronx subway station before fleeing.
The video, released Monday by the NYPD, shows a man with a white tank top, red backpack and backwards baseball cap grabbing the victim and violently throwing her toward the train tracks at the Jackson Avenue station around 4:45 p.m. on Sunday.
🚨WANTED-ASSAULT: 6/5/22 approx. 4:40 PM, Westchester & Jackson Ave train station @NYPD40PCT Bronx. The suspect pushed a 52-year-old female victim on the tracks. Any info call us at 800-577-TIPS or anonymously post a tip on our website https://t.co/TRPPY5zHV2 Reward up to $3,500 pic.twitter.com/M8kflD010M
— NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPDTips) June 7, 2022
The woman hits the ground at the edge of the platform before rolling onto the tracks below.
Other subway riders pulled the victim back onto the platform before an train came, according to a subway spokesman.
The MTA added that she suffered cuts to her head and arm.
The woman is recovering at a nearby hospital and reportedly in stable condition, according to police.
NYC mayor Eric Adams (D) was elected in 2021 on promises he would tamp down on a crime surge in the city, especially in its famous subway system.
A random rider was fatally shot in the chest only last month in an unprovoked attack. The suspect has been arrested and found to have an “extensive, violent criminal history.”
Being shoved onto the subway tracks has been a persistent anxiety for subway riders since the Jan. 15 death of Michelle Alyssa Go, who was pushed off the Times Square stations platform in front of an oncoming train.
Her killer was determined unfit for trial in April.
This incident Sunday was the first subway shoving since a 62-year-old man was pushed onto the tracks in Manhattan, about a week after Go’s death. He survived because the oncoming train braked in time.
