Man pushes girl on to New York subway tracks earlier than punching one other repeatedly within the face: police | EUROtoday

A person has been arrested in New York after one girl was pushed onto the subway tracks and one other was repeatedly punched within the face, police mentioned.

Curtis Signal, 25, was arrested following the violent assault in Brooklyn Saturday and at a close-by males’s shelter.

The incident occurred round 8.45 a.m. on the R subway line at 53rd Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, sources instructedThe New York Post.

A person first pushed the 51-year-old onto the tracks with out warning, inflicting her to endure three damaged ribs, then turned on one other girl, 43, who was standing on the platform. She was taken to hospital with facial accidents.

“The guy was sitting on the platform and they were standing,” bystander Al Rivera instructed The Post. “All of a sudden he pushed her on the tracks and then he turned around and pounced on the other lady. He was hitting her, punching her in the face.”

Two different individuals instantly rushed to assist the lady who had been pushed onto the tracks and dragged her again onto the platform, eyewitnesses mentioned.

“I can only imagine how petrified they were,” Rivera mentioned.

Signal was charged with reckless endangerment, assault, and harassment, police mentioned. The Independent has contacted the NYPD for extra info on the incident.

The Post experiences that Signal is a repeat offender and is on probation till June 2027. Saturday’s incident was not the primary assault at a subway station he’s alleged to have been concerned in.

In early September 2023, he allegedly punched a 67-year-old girl a number of instances within the face whereas ready for an F practice at 169th Street in Jamaica, Queens. Signal allegedly fled and was solely linked to the assault months later when he was arrested for fare evasion.

Less than every week later he additionally assaulted a cop on the Grand Concourse/Tremont Avenue station within the Bronx, leaving the officer with a damaged nostril, sources instructed The Post.

In that incident he was charged with assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and obstruction of governmental administration.

Signal was additionally charged with assault in May 2022 and appearing in a way injurious to a baby, after allegedly hitting his 13-year-old sister and giving her a black eye.