An irate subway rider pummeled a person who ran into him on a Brooklyn practice late final month, cops mentioned Wednesday.
The 36-year-old sufferer was onboard a northbound J practice stopped on the Kosciuszko Avenue station in Bushwick round 1 p.m. on Might 21 when he inadvertently knocked right into a stranger, police mentioned.
Quite than letting it go, the seething straphanger demanded an apology from the bumper, cops mentioned.
He then punched the sufferer a number of instances within the face and physique and took off, authorities mentioned.
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 Avenue station on Might 1 when Marie McWilliams, 36, allegedly punched her a number of instances – leaving her with bruises that haven’t pale a month later, in response to cops and the sufferer.
McWilliams was arraigned in Manhattan Felony Courtroom 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, information launched Tuesday revealed that crime within the metropolis’s transit system dropped by 5.6% to date this yr, as of Might 31 – with 186 incidents reported in comparison with 197 throughout the identical interval in 2024.
