An incredible-grandmother from Queens who was badly overwhelmed by an unhinged lady in a Midtown subway station final month is frightened to experience the rails after the harrowing unprovoked beating, she advised The Put up.
Aurore Gonzalez, 73 — who was allegedly pummeled by Marie McWilliams, 36, Might 1 — mentioned she will be able to’t shake the terrifying feeling that her attacker continues to be proper “behind” her.
“She hit me as I used to be stepping off the practice and I heard ‘bop!’” she advised The Put up Tuesday, the identical day McWilliams was arrested for assault.
“Then I began falling backwards and sliding, and I fell into homeless individual’s belongings lined in feces,” she mentioned.
Weeks after the nightmarish ordeal, Gonzalez mentioned she nonetheless suffers from sleeplessness and nervousness.
“I nonetheless take the subway and I go searching now,” mentioned Gonzalez, who has 5 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. “[I’m] wanting behind my head on a regular basis. I’m in search of her.”
Gonzalez was using the Manhattan-bound E practice to her job cleansing legislation workplaces at round 4:30 p.m when she allegedly heard McWilliams jabbering racist feedback to herself.
“She was simply speaking loud to herself about Puerto Ricans and blacks and saying that they’re no good and that they shouldn’t be right here!” mentioned Gonzalez.
Gonzalez, who’s Hispanic, mentioned she rotated and requested the erratic straphanger, “Are you speaking to me?!”
McWilliams “didn’t say something” however adopted her as she stepped off the practice on the Fifth Avenue-53rd Road station — after which she pounced, repeatedly punching her, she mentioned.
“Once I was stepping off the practice she hit me behind the top,” she mentioned.
“She grabbed my bun…and he or she began scratching me with a blade on my face,” mentioned Gonzalez, who nonetheless had two black eyes from the assault Tuesday.
“I [was] bleeding and I fell right into a homeless individual’s crap and I needed to go to my job,” she mentioned.
Gonzalez mentioned she now suffers from kidney bother on account of the autumn, together with scarring close to her eye and migraine complications.
“This simply isn’t proper. I’m in ache. I’ve to be on painkillers,” mentioned Gonzalez.
“I couldn’t sleep for 2 weeks. The nervousness, I couldn’t eat. At evening on my job I’d simply cry,” mentioned Gonzalez.
Requested about her attacker’s arrest, Gonzalez mentioned she’s “relieved.”
“I’m so comfortable to listen to this. I’ll testify! She shouldn’t have executed that. She ought to preserve her arms to herself!” Gonzalez mentioned. “Have some respect for older individuals!”
McWilliams was arraigned in Manhattan Felony Court docket Tuesday and granted supervised launch by Decide Marva Brown over prosecutors’ request for $10,000 money bail or $30,000 bond.
