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JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens (WABC) -- A 50-year-old antheral is successful custody aft a combat with different subway rider ended with that antheral fatally struck by a bid successful Elmhurst, Queens.
The fishy was lasting adjacent the level of the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Ave. presumption astatine astir 4:45 p.m. Monday erstwhile 48-year-old Heriberto Quintana bumped into him portion walking by.
The interaction sent the suspect's compartment telephone tumbling onto the subway tracks.
The fishy told the unfortunate to spell get his phone. He refused, and the 2 began arguing successful Spanish.
Pushing and shoving and a combat ensued, culminating with the unfortunate falling to the subway tracks, wherever helium was struck by an F bid leaving the station.
Quintana, of Queens, was pronounced dormant astatine Elmhurst Hospital.
Charges against the 50-year-old fishy are pending.
It was the ninth sidesplitting successful the city's subway strategy this year, and the 10th successful transit.
NY Congressman Lee Zeldin, who is moving for governor, utilized this latest subway onslaught arsenic a backdrop to outline his program to woody with crime.
Zeldin and his moving mate, Alison Esposito, who is simply a seasoned of the NYPD, appeared extracurricular the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Ave. presumption to request change.
Incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul says she's been "laser-focused" connected warring transgression since Day One.
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