The deranged lady who randomly shoved a Brooklyn straphanger off the subway platform Sunday had been arguing with herself moments earlier than the encounter — and had tried to toss others in entrance of the practice, the sufferer stated.
Steven Morales, 43, instructed The Submit he’d been strolling on the Kosciuszko Road station platform in Bedford-Stuyvesant at round 9 a.m. as he made his method residence from East New York when he seen a mentally unstable lady.
“I see the girl, like, in the midst of the platform the place the benches are,” Morales stated on Monday. “She has her baggage there. And he or she’s simply screaming and arguing, I suppose, on the imaginary. You recognize, simply bugged out.”
“I’m used to seeing individuals like that on the road,” he continued, “so I’m simply gonna’ stroll proper by her.”
“In order she’s rambling, I simply stroll proper by her. And as quickly as I get to her it was like, increase! She simply pushed me.”
The lady — clad in a protracted, grey trench coat — tossed Morales onto the J practice tracks, police and legislation enforcement sources stated.
And Morales stated the entire thing appeared to occur in sluggish movement.
“In my thoughts, I’m like, ‘I can’t consider I’m falling onto the observe,’” he stated, including that he landed flat on his again.
“I don’t know this woman. We didn’t even alternate phrases. … You see it on a regular basis. However you by no means suppose you’re going to be a kind of individuals.”
Morales’ mom, Evelyn, 66, was left shaken and sobbing Monday.
“Fortunately there was no practice — she might have killed him,” the distraught mother stated. “They virtually killed my son and I didn’t even know.”
Morales stated he couldn’t climb again onto the platform after the autumn, so he walked down the tracks till he hit a service stairwell that introduced him again to the ready space.
“After I come up, I nonetheless see her rambling,” he stated. “I had a keychain with a protracted rope, so I’m swinging it and I begin yelling at her, ‘You’re loopy! You tried to kill me!’”
The cops arrived across the similar time, and Morales instructed them what the girl did.
“I’m like, ‘She simply pushed me onto the tracks!’” Morales stated, including that he might begin to really feel the ache of what would later be identified as a fractured knee, hairline wrist fracture and a bruised head and shoulder.
“I instructed the conductor within the toll sales space that I would like an ambulance.”
Later, the cops would inform him that others had known as to say a middle-aged lady had been taunting individuals and making an attempt to shove them onto the tracks, too.
He was handled at Woodhull Hospital and launched.
Morales’ mother stated her son was crying when she picked him up — and she or he known as on town to halt such mindless crimes.
“They should do one thing— that is dangerous. You may’t even exit,” she stated. “We live right here in hell. You may’t even go exterior. … I thank the Lord that he’s with us.”
However regardless of the traumatic and near-fatal occasion, Morales has no sick will towards the girl.
“I want her no hurt, as a result of it was a psychological factor,” he stated. “God bless her, wherever they will discover her. She wants assist.”
He additionally stated individuals like her ought to be institutionalized.
“Now, it’s simply take some remedy and go residence,” Morales stated. “It’s unhappy as a result of the system proper now — you bought the people who find themselves not mentally wholesome round mentally wholesome individuals.”
On Monday, two cops have been posted on the Manhattan-bound facet of the station platform — and stated they have been there to bolster police presence within the wake of the near-tragedy.
The NYPD continues to be trying to find the girl, who fled after the incident.
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