NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- A homeless man was arrested in this week's subway shoving in Tribeca that left a woman with a fractured leg.
Samuel Junker, 41, was picked up in Manhattan and charged with felony assault.
Junker's address is listed as a shelter in White Plains.
Detectives believe he's the man who pushed Wan Xu, 34, onto the tracks at the Chambers Street station on Broadway just before 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Xu had just gotten off work at a massage salon and was waiting for a southbound 1 train when a man shoved her to the tracks and ran off.
Xu told the New York Post that she “didn’t have any warning” as her attacker “suddenly pushed me down with all his strength from behind.”
“I was very scared,” the married mother of one said. “I tried my best to get out.”
Good Samaritans quickly rushed over to help her, and she said she had to “endure the pain” as they pulled her back onto the platform. Thankfully, no train was arriving at the time.
Xu was transported to New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital with a fractured leg. She was continuing to recover at home Friday and will eventually need surgery to reset the bone.
She said this was her worst nightmare and that she was “already afraid to take the train because of this happening.”
“I don’t know how I’ll ever take the train in the future,” she said.