NYC seeing terrifying string of straphangers shoved onto subway tracks [View all]

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Despite big decrease in riders during COVID pandemic, NYC seeing terrifying string of straphangers shoved onto subway tracks

It’s a common New York fear.

You’re standing on a subway platform, minding your own business, when you’re suddenly shoved to the tracks below — right in front of a 400-ton train that won’t be able to stop in time.

It doesn’t happen often — but at least six straphangers have been victimized by random attacks in the past two months, including Washington Heights resident Rafael Wilson.

Wilson, 26, was waiting for an uptown A train at the Fulton Center in lower Manhattan on Feb. 2, listening to music on his headphones, when out of nowhere a man sneaked up from behind and shoved him in the back.

Wilson was pushed so hard that he landed just a few feet away from the third rail, which powers subway trains with 600 lethal volts of direct current electricity.

Police are familiar with the attacker — Calvin Wilson, 38, of no relation to the victim. He has a history of mental illness and a rap sheet that includes a Dec. 2 arrest for threatening a transit worker with a metal pipe, police said.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-mta-subway-shoves-mental-health-trend-20210215-rrjrggdvsjhppnbra5j2mdk5km-story.html