The maniac accused of randomly shoving an 82-year-old girl onto Queens subway tracks final week was busted Monday and charged with tried homicide, cops mentioned.
Brandon Harris, 35 – who lives down the block from the Flushing-Principal Road No. 7 station the place the vicious Wednesday assault occurred – additionally faces a felony assault rap, authorities mentioned.
Harris, an entire stranger to the aged sufferer, pushed her simply earlier than midday whereas the prepare sat within the station, in keeping with authorities.
The senior hit her head on the aspect of the subway — forsaking a bloody scene — earlier than she landed on the tracks between automobiles, sources mentioned.
She was rushed by EMTs to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital, the place she was listed in secure situation.
Harris has 4 prior arrests – the latest in July of 2020 for a misdemeanor assault sparked by a dispute with the sufferer, cops mentioned.
He was arrested for public lewdness in each 2019 and 2015, and was cuffed one other time in 2015 for theft of a motorized vehicle, police mentioned.
In an unrelated subway shove about two weeks earlier, Shadrach Ford, 30, senselessly pushed a 62-year-old girl onto the tracks on the Jefferson Road station in Bushwick – all as a result of she ignored his request for a lighter, cops and sources mentioned.
Fast-acting bystanders pulled her again to security, in keeping with the sources.
Ford was additionally charged with tried homicide, in addition to tried criminally negligent murder, assault, reckless endangerment, harassment and prison trespass, authorities mentioned.
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