NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – A Brooklyn man was sentenced for attacking a good Samaritan and slashing him in the face while the victim was trying to break up a fight on a subway car, prosecutors said.
Sean Lewis, 34, of Crown Heights, was sentenced to seven years in prison for first-degree attempted assault after he pleaded guilty in June 2024.
The attack happened on May 10, 2023, when Lewis started fighting another man on a southbound C train in Brooklyn. When the victim, 44, tried to intervene, Lewis turned his attention to him as the train pulled into the Franklin Avenue station in Bedford-Stuyvesant. He approached the victim and said, "Thank you," before attacking him, according to prosecutors.
Lewis then pulled out a sharp object and slashed the victim in the face, prosecutors said. The defendant then got off the train and fled the station.
The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital where he got 100 stitches to close the eight-inch wound on the left side of his face, according to court records.
Lewis was captured on surveillance footage and arrested on May 18, 2023.
"Today's sentence holds the defendant accountable for a vicious and unprovoked attack of a stranger riding the subway," Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said. "The fact that the victim was simply acting as a Good Samaritan makes the defendant's behavior in this case especially appalling. We will never tolerate violence in the subway system."
