Man nabbed for shoving stranger to tracks in unprovoked Queens subway station attack - New York Daily News

A antheral with 20 anterior arrests was nabbed Monday for randomly shoving a antheral to the tracks successful a Queens subway station, constabulary said.

Lamale McRae, 41, was charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment and harassment successful the caught-on-camera Friday attack.

Police said they utilized facial designation to way down McRae — who was erstwhile arrested for shooting a idiosyncratic — adjacent his location successful Bushwick, Brooklyn.

The attacker ran astatine David Martin, 32, arsenic the unfortunate stood connected a Manhattan-bound L bid level astatine the Myrtle-Wyckoff presumption successful Ridgewood astir 2:40 p.m. Friday, surveillance video released by the NYPD shows.

Cops released images of the fishy successful the subway shoving connected the Manhattan-bound L bid level astatine the Myrtle-Wyckoff presumption successful Ridgewood, Queens. (NYPD/DCPI)

Martin was catapulted onto the tracks arsenic a radical of children watched successful horror.

Good Samaritans pulled the injured antheral disconnected the tracks earlier a bid could travel into interaction with him.

Martin broke his collarbone successful the attack, leaving him unable to work for astatine slightest six weeks astatine his serving occupation connected the Upper East Side, his sister told the Daily News.

“In the blink of an eye, I was pushed with afloat unit into the bid tracks,” Martin told WABC-TV. “People were told that I had nary injuries, but I americium laying successful furniture with a breached collarbone and my look is truthful swollen. And mentally, I don’t cognize however to adjacent get done this.”

Martin said helium nary longer feels harmless connected the train.

“Because I’m from New York... I’ve ever felt harmless taking the train, and present astatine 32 years aged I nary longer consciousness harmless and that’s not just and that’s not OK,” Martin told the station.

The victim’s household is trying to assistance him get done the ordeal, but relatives said it is hard connected them, too.

“Thank God he’s alive,” said his mother, Audrey Martin. “The trauma is overwhelming — like, however tin you wrapper your caput astir a random idiosyncratic doing that, and wherefore me?”

She said her lad is suffering from utmost anxiousness implicit the attack.

“He started smoking cigarettes again, which he’s not expected to do,” she said. “I don’t cognize however he’s going to unrecorded similar this. Every clip I notation getting a lawyer oregon something, helium gets freaked out. He’s precise freaked out. He has a batch of anxiety.”

She said her lad has been rewatching the video.

“It’s excessively traumatic,” she said. “It’s like, ‘Why maine retired of everyone connected the platform?’ It’s a changeless play-over of what happened.”

As of Oct. 16, subway transgression this twelvemonth is up 41%, according to NYPD stats. Felony assaults person accrued 17%, with 431 attacks truthful acold this twelvemonth compared to 370 by the aforesaid clip past year.

Of the 174 radical arrested for felony battle successful the transit strategy truthful acold this year, 42.5% of them person histories of intelligence illness, sources said.

There person been 421 radical arrested for large crimes similar murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, expansive larceny and car theft. Out of those radical taken into constabulary custody, 38.7% person a past of intelligence illness.

The assaults see an onslaught connected a 62-year-old antheral who was punched successful the look astatine a Bronx subway presumption connected Sunday. Cops said helium whitethorn person been targeted arsenic portion of an disfigured inclination of “knockout game” attacks.