Video: Man Throws Stranger Off NYC Subway Platform

New York City NY

07 June, 2022

10:59 AM

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NEW YORK CITY — A man violently threw a stranger off a Bronx subway platform onto the track in an attack captured by surveillance video. The seemingly random attack against a 52-year-old woman unfolded Sunday about 4:40 p.m. in the Westchester Avenue/Jackson Avenue subway station, police said. Video released by the NYPD shows a man walk up to the woman, grab her by the shoulders and toss her onto the tracks. The woman's legs fly up in the air as she falls off the platform. Other straphangers helped the woman off the tracks, where there wasn't a train approaching, the New York Post first reported. Medics took her to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition. Police are looking for the man spotted in the video. The attack is only the latest in a spate of high-profile violent incidents in the city's subways. The shoving death of Michelle Go, 42, at Times Square-42nd Street in January crystallized fears, while an April mass shooting in a Brooklyn station and the random killing of straphanger Daniel Enriquez, 48, only deepened them. People with information about the Bronx incident are asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). They can also submit tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website athttps://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips.