NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – A subway shoving suspect was arrested and charged late Wednesday, hours after he allegedly pushed an 85-year-old man onto the train tracks at the Rockefeller Center station, police said Thursday.
Brittan Jones, 30, of York, Pennsylvania, was arrested on the Upper West Side around 8 p.m. He was charged with assault and reckless endangerment in Wednesday morning's unprovoked shoving.
The victim was at the 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center station at 5:40 a.m. when another man attacked him on the downtown platform for the B and D trains, according to police.
The attacker pushed the octogenarian onto the tracks, police said. Thankfully, no train was coming at the time.
The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries, including a laceration to his knee. He was hospitalized at Mount Sinai West in stable condition.
There have been a number of subway shovings in recent weeks, including on Oct. 18, when a 30-year-old woman was pushed onto the tracks at the Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station in Midtown, allegedly by a 39-year-old emotionally disturbed man who was arrested in Newark the next day. The victim struck her head on the train and was critically injured in the unprovoked assault.