A man is in critical condition after being shot. New York City Subway tracks on New Year’s Eve added to a recent spate of violent incidents on the nation’s busiest subway system.
The victim, a 45-year-old man, had a miraculous escape after being hit by an oncoming 1 train at the 18th Street station. He suffered a head injury and was in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital Tuesday night, the New York Post reported.
“By God’s own hand, he fell right into the ditch,” a law enforcement source told the Post.
The NYPD received a 911 call claiming an assault was in progress. Subway station Tuesday afternoon.
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Officers responded and found that a 45-year-old man had been hit by a southbound train after allegedly being pushed. On the subway track according to authorities.
The ordeal was captured on video and shows a hooded man at the edge of the platform and a victim looking at his phone as the train enters the station.
The video then shows an unsuspecting man being thrown onto the tracks and disappearing under the train.
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NYPD officers responded to the attack in progress and found that a 45-year-old man had been hit by a southbound train after allegedly being thrown onto the subway tracks. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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23-year-old Kimmel Hawkins has been charged. Attempted murder After allegedly pushing the stranger, police said.
45-year-old victim A Hospital critical condition
Tuesday’s violence comes less than two weeks after a woman – identified as 57-year-old Debrina Kawam – was burned while sleeping on a train in Brooklyn on December 22. His death
The Associated Press contributed to this report.