NYC subway-attack victim: Gwen Stefani concerts saved my life!

A 22-year-old Brooklyn girl who was randomly punched onto subway tracks final month claims she was in a position to scramble to security because of her expertise climbing up on the stage at Gwen Stefani live shows.

“It’s as a result of Gwen’s known as me on stage so many instances,” the nameless girl advised Fox 5 Information. “That’s why my physique knew what to do.”

The lady mentioned she was returning dwelling from work and had simply gotten off the prepare within the Crown Heights part of Brooklyn when a person she didn’t know punched her and pushed her onto the subway tracks.

“Being within the tracks, that’s what offers me nightmares,” she advised the outlet. “That was probably the most scary factor of my life.

“You by no means suppose you’re gonna be in a second while you’re like, ‘I have to dwell,’ that’s all I may take into consideration,” the girl added.

Trying on the platform above her on the time, the girl mentioned, she figured it was about the identical peak because the stage at a current Las Vegas present the place the singer had her helped up onstage.

She mentioned she was in a position to climb again on to the platform and dash out of the station.

The unnamed sufferer mentioned a person she didn’t know punched her and pushed her onto the tracks.

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It wasn’t till late, she mentioned, that she realized the extent of her accidents.

“I seemed like a monster,” she mentioned. “Like, my face was all swollen, I didn’t even know I had a black eye until I seemed within the mirror.”

Police say the assault continues to be underneath investigation.

The sufferer defined that Stefani has known as her as much as the stage a number of instances so her “physique knew what to do” when she wanted to climb again to the platform.

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The lady’s story comes amid a spate of subway shovings.

A 62-year-old man was left in steady situation after he was randomly punched and knocked to the tracks Sunday night time in The Bronx. Police have a 21-year-old suspect in custody.

On Friday, one other subway shover charged at a 32-year-old man at 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 No. 6 prepare in The Bronx.

Days earlier, a 48-year-old man was killed by a prepare after he fell onto the tracks throughout a scuffle with one other man in Queens.