NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — The suspect who allegedly caused a 48-year-old man to fall into the path of an oncoming Queens subway train during a fight over a dropped cellphone has been ordered held without bail on a manslaughter charge.
Carlos Garcia was arraigned late Tuesday on second-degree manslaughter and assault charges, the Queens district attorney's office said Wednesday.
The 50-year-old attacked Heriberto Quintana, causing him to fall off the F train platform at the Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Ave. station in Jackson Heights around 4:45 p.m., court documents allege.
An incoming train then approached the station platform at the exact time Quintana fell, fatally striking him.
His family told the Daily News Tuesday that Quintana was on his way to meet his wife, Hilda Rojas, and take her for dialysis treatment.
"I want justice for my husband," Rojas told the outlet. "He took my husband’s life over a phone."
His death marked the ninth killing in the New York City subway system this year, the 10th in transit and the fifth in just the past two weeks.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement Wednesday the "spate of violence on trains and in stations is a threat not only to commuters, but to the city’s economic and social vitality."
"The violence must end," she said. "We must do everything we can to ensure that all New Yorkers can commute safely, and to that end we have charged the defendant and will be holding him accountable."
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