By Marlyn Montilla
06 May 2024, 17:01 PM EDT
A man with suspected mental problems knocked down an on-duty MTA operator while he was aboard a train stopped at the end of a Queens line Sunday night, authorities said.
The 38-year-old employee was cleaning the M train at the Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue station so it could be transferred to a parking space shortly before 12:00 midnight, when the subject suddenly assaulted him. officials said.
The worker was brutally beaten to the ground and had to be rushed to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center with back pain, officials said.
The subject, described as a man in his 50s, fled the train on foot and is still a fugitive from justice as of Monday afternoon, the New York Post reported.
The attack occurred weeks after a 44-year-old woman who is an MTA janitor was sprayed with an unknown substance on a Bronx train, police said.
The victim of that attack had been cleaning the train car inside the Van Cortland Park-242nd Street station around 3:40 a.m. on April 22, when he woke up a woman who had fallen asleep and asked her to get out. to withdraw, causing the passenger to discharge a spray, officials said.
The suspect escaped and the employee was hospitalized with pain, redness and swelling on her face, agents said at the time.
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