Man Who Pushed Conductor Onto Brooklyn Subway Tracks Arrested: PD

Park Slope NY

04 September, 2020

9:29 AM

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BROOKLYN, NY — The man police say pushed a subway conductor onto the train tracks at Hoyt-Schermerhorn station on Tuesday has been arrested, cops said Thursday. Kevin Harrison, 55, was charged with second-degree assault and reckless endangerment for the seemingly unprovoked attack. Harrison is homeless, according to records. He is accused of pushing the 65-year-old conductor as he was standing on the northbound platform of the A line in his MTA uniform, police said. The conductor was sent to the hospital with multiple rib and spinal fractures. He was in serious but stable condition, police said. The attack was one of three on MTA workers over 24 hours this week that had transit officials sounding the alarm to police about violence against their workers. The attacks started late Monday in the East Village when a bus driver sat in an out-of-service bus, officials said. A man held the bus' front doors open while a woman rushed onto it and punched the driver in the face, according to a release. Minutes after the Brooklyn attack, at 8:09 a.m., a bus driver in Queens found himself facing harsh words from a pedestrian, officials said. The pedestrian, a man, capped the encounter with a punch to a bus window, shattering it, according to a release.