The live-in accomplice of NYC subway capturing sufferer Daniel Enriquez railed in opposition to rampant Huge Apple transit violence Monday — as he mentioned the slain man was taking the subway as a result of he didn’t need to pay Uber’s costs anymore.
“He stopped taking Uber f—ing perhaps a few weeks in the past,” Adam Pollack, 54, advised The Submit. “He all the time took Uber. Has since the pandemic to work, , and on Sundays.
“He wasn’t a subway particular person,” Pollack mentioned. “It was the surge pricing, the $40 every method. He simply didn’t need to, so he stopped about two weeks in the past and began taking the subway once more.”
He now blames surging crime within the metropolis subway system for taking the lifetime of his accomplice of 18 years.
“It retains occurring and no one does something,” Pollack mentioned. “He was going to brunch. It’s simply so random. They’ll catch [the killer] and so what? Is anybody actually outraged? Is something going to alter?”
“There are such a lot of loopy folks on the subway,” Pollack mentioned. “There isn't any cash in fixing the homeless. The individuals who make money working from home, everybody who's extra rich is dwelling, working from dwelling. They don’t care. Nothing will change.”
Enriquez, 48, was within the final automobile of a Manhattan-bound Q prepare round 11:42 a.m. Sunday when a deranged gunman shot him within the chest and mortally wounded him.
Police mentioned the capturing was random and unprovoked.
The shooter, who remains to be on the free, fled the Canal Avenue station, leaving Enriquez dying on the ground of the subway prepare.
Pollack, who mentioned he met Enriquez in 2004, mentioned his accomplice, who labored for Goldman Sachs, usually stayed out of the subways till lately, choosing Uber to make the 20-minute trip to work — till surge pricing pushed him again into the tubes.
He mentioned Enriquez went into work 4 days every week and on Sunday to shoot pool at a Manhattan bar after which to have brunch.
“He was going to have brunch together with his brother at Juliette’s in Williamsburg,” Pollack mentioned. “I don’t know why he began taking the subway. He mentioned it was surge pricing for Uber.
“He stopped taking Uber f—ing perhaps a few weeks in the past,” he mentioned. “He all the time took Uber. Has because the pandemic to work, , and on Sundays. He wasn’t a subway particular person. It was the surge pricing, the $40 every method. He simply didn’t need to, so he stopped about two weeks in the past and began taking the subway once more.”
Pollack mentioned Enriquez was born in Williamsburg however moved to California together with his household as a younger baby, and later moved to Seattle earlier than returning to the Huge Apple to attend New York College.
“He was a kind of fortunate guys who acquired a job at Morgan Stanley proper out of college after which acquired a greater job at Goldman Sachs. He labored at Morgan Stanley from the late ’90s to 2013. Then Goldman in 2013.”
Pollack mentioned his accomplice was a gifted and gifted man who had a grasp’s in Latin research.
Enriquez taught himself guitar at the beginning of the pandemic lockdown and had discovered Italian and Portuguese, along with the English and Spanish he grew up talking.
Pollack mentioned Enriquez’s mother and father hail from the Mexican metropolis of Chiautla.
“He was a pleasant, fascinating particular person,” he mentioned. “A whole lot of depth happening.”
However he mentioned Enriquez moved again to the town within the ’90s, “when New York Metropolis was like Disney World. Now there are folks wandering round who should be not wandering round.”
He mentioned his accomplice’s mindless loss of life has solely reaffirmed his concern of the subway and the rampant crime that he says has plagued the system.
“I don’t love the subway,” Pollack mentioned. “I understand how harmful New York is. It took me two years to get again on the subway. I don’t really feel protected on the subway. I understand how to pay full consideration. I’m not comfortable about how that is now.”
“I’m not into pretend change, political correctness,” he added. “It must be actual change.
“This wasn’t racially motivated,” he mentioned of Enriquez’s slaying. “It was loopy motivated.”
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