62-year-old falls onto subway tracks in NYC during random attack

A 62-year-old man within the Bronx is the most recent sufferer of violence within the NYC subway system.
Christopher Sadowski

A 62-year-old was punched within the face throughout an unprovoked assault at a Bronx subway station on Sunday evening and tumbled onto the tracks, cops stated.

The sufferer was standing on the platform of the 149th Road – Grand Concourse station round 9:45 p.m. when a 21-year-man got here as much as him and randomly slugged him, in response to regulation enforcement sources.

Fortunately there was no prepare pulling into the station when the person fell.

He was faraway from the tracks and brought to an space hospital the place he was listed in steady situation.

The suspect was arrested by cops who had been on the station. Fees had been pending early Monday.

The assault might have been a “knockout recreation” assault, an NYPD spokesperson stated. Gamers of the twisted social media problem dare one another to slug a stranger with the objective of knocking the particular person unconscious with a single blow.

The violent recreation terrorized New Yorkers a number of years in the past when teams of teenagers and younger adults went on a spree slugging unsuspecting victims and filming the assaults which they later uploaded to social media.

Final week, a retired NYPD officer was socked at the back of the top in Brighton Seaside in what was believed to be a “knockout recreation” assault.

The assault comes after a string of latest violence throughout the metropolis’s subway system.

On Friday, a subway shover charged at a 32-year-old man in a Brooklyn station, knocking him onto the tracks when no prepare was coming.

Final week, Miguel Ramirez, 35, allegedly pushed a 26-year-old man onto the tracks of the 6 prepare within the Bronx. Days earlier, a 48-year-old man was fatally struck by an F prepare after falling onto the tracks in Queens throughout a scuffle with one other man.