A 44-year-old Huge Apple transit employee who had two of his enamel knocked out by a short-on-cash subway vagrant mentioned Sunday that he’s now afraid to return to work.
The sufferer, whose identify is being withheld by The Publish, mentioned he’s nonetheless laid up from his painful accidents.
“It’s loopy,” the sufferer mentioned of the Jan. 17 assault. “The man mentioned he has cash however his automotive was not working. So, I checked his card and the cardboard solely had 30 cents on it. I informed him, ‘Sorry, you don’t have the funds for.’ Then he instantly punched me within the face and mentioned, ‘The place did my cash go?’
“Like in 10 seconds all this occurred.”
The NYPD on Sunday launched surveillance footage of the brute within the assault, which unfolded round 7 p.m. on the Herald Sq./thirty fourth Road station in Manhattan. The attacker was nonetheless on the unfastened Sunday.
He has a beard and moustache, and wore a darkish coat with a light-weight inexperienced hoodie
The transit employee, who has solely been on the job since late 2023 and has three younger kids, mentioned he’s nonetheless out of labor as a consequence of his accidents and is questioning whether or not it’s protected to return.
“I’m very afraid,” he mentioned. “My mouth is open proper now. Two enamel are lacking. It’s nonetheless bleeding, I’ve complications. Typically I really feel I ought to go away the job, that it’s not for me, as a result of I’ve my household.
“For some motive he was so offended and he simply punched my face and ran away.”
The sufferer was handled at Bellevue Hospital following the unprovoked assault.
The town subways have seen a latest spike in violence, regardless of an total drop in transit crime.
There have been 49 felony assaults reported within the metropolis’s subway system from the beginning of the 12 months via Feb. 2, down from the 58 recorded throughout the identical interval final 12 months, NYPD statistics present.
The primary week of February noticed a very violent stretch of violence within the subway system, with 11 felony assaults reported, in comparison with simply six throughout the identical stretch in 2024, in accordance with the information.
The MTA employee slugged on the Herald Sq. station mentioned he had observed the uptick.
“A number of violence,” he mentioned. “It simply occurred to me proper now.”
Anybody with details about his attacker is urged to name the NYPD Crime Stopper’s Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS or at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org.
Supply hyperlink
