A Bronx vagrant with greater than 40 busts below his belt was arrested Tuesday for the unprovoked subway shoving of a Manhattan straphanger the day earlier than, police sources instructed The Publish.
Clarence Anderson, 36 — a suspected emotionally disturbed particular person — was charged with assault within the subway assault after cops nabbed him for one more incident close to Columbus Circle whereas he was on the lam, sources mentioned.
The suspect had allegedly hurled a rock at a building employee, sources mentioned.
As soon as Anderson was in custody for the rock-tossing, cops acknowledged him from his description within the subway assault, which was caught on surveillance video, sources mentioned.
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan for a psychiatric analysis after authorities deemed him a suspected EDP, sources mentioned.
Data present Anderson has a minimum of three open legal circumstances in The Bronx, together with for theft and housebreaking, along with his prolonged legal report.
“He shouldn’t have been on the streets,” the subway-shove sufferer instructed The Publish.”One thing must be modified or mounted.
“It’s loopy how he’s nonetheless round. I’m blissful he’s arrested, and hopefully he isn’t again on the streets.”
The 25-year-old sufferer instructed The Publish earlier that cops mentioned his assailant had a minimum of 39 arrests on his report.
“Scary s–t, man,” the battered sufferer mentioned. “Actually, I by no means thought this might occur to me. I’ve heard of these things occurring, however I didn’t assume it might be me.”
The person, who works in industrial actual property, was heading house on the Nov. 6 platform on the 14th Road-Union Sq. station when he was shoved from behind.
He fell onto the tracks and was helped up by good Samaritans — with a gash to his head and arm however luckily spared extra critical accidents.
“I'd say that I really like the town, however the truth that this man continues to be on the streets is fairly pathetic,” he mentioned Tuesday morning.
Simply hours later, a building employee flagged down cops and instructed them Anderson had thrown a rock at him, sources mentioned.
Police took Anderson into custody, with officers noting he match the outline of the Monday night time shover and ultimately charged him in that assault.
A witness who got here on the scene simply moments after the subway assault referred to as it “completely terrifying.
“Our prepare got here in, and we noticed this man who was bleeding profusely with a gash in his brow,” the witness, a graffiti artist from Brooklyn, instructed The Publish. “He mentioned somebody has simply pushed him onto the tracks, and he managed to tug himself again up.
“We tried to cease the blood, acquired tissues from individuals,” he mentioned. “It’s terrifying, completely terrifying. I gained’t be standing wherever close to that yellow border anymore.”
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