An irate subway rider pummeled a person who ran into him on a Brooklyn practice late final month, cops stated Wednesday.
The 36-year-old sufferer was onboard a northbound J practice stopped on the Kosciuszko Road station in Bushwick round 1 p.m. on Might 21 when he inadvertently knocked right into a stranger, police stated.
Quite than letting it go, the seething straphanger demanded an apology from the bumper, cops stated.
He then punched the sufferer a number of instances within the face and physique and took off, authorities stated.
The sufferer refused medical consideration on the scene for minor accidents.
Cops launched surveillance footage of the still-at-large suspect, described as a person with a medium complexion and dreadlocks. He was final seen sporting a grey rain jacket, blue denims, and white sneakers.
The assault got here weeks after one other attacker pummeled a stranger within the metropolis’s transit system.
Aurore Gonzalez, 73, was using a southbound E practice approaching the Fifth Avenue-53rd Road station on Might 1 when Marie McWilliams, 36, allegedly punched her a number of instances – leaving her with bruises that haven’t light a month later, in keeping with cops and the sufferer.
McWilliams was arraigned in Manhattan Prison Court docket on Tuesday and granted supervised launch by Choose Marva Brown, over prosecutors’ request for $10,000 money bail or $30,000 bond.
In the meantime, knowledge launched Tuesday revealed that crime within the metropolis’s transit system dropped by 5.6% thus far this 12 months, as of Might 31 – with 186 incidents reported in comparison with 197 throughout the identical interval in 2024.
