Police arrested a man they say shoved a 62-year-old woman onto a subway track following a dispute over a lighter.
Shadrach Ford, 30, was busted Friday on charges of attempted murder, attempted criminally negligent homicide, assault, reckless endangerment, harassment and criminal trespass for the potentially deadly Brooklyn attack, cops said.
The suspect approached the victim on the northbound L train platform at the Jefferson St. station in Bushwick to ask for a lighter around 5:52 p.m. Thursday, police said.
Ford’s asking for a light somehow sparked a heated argument that ended when the suspect punched the victim in the face and hurled her down onto the railbed, cops said.
Fellow straphangers rushed to the victim’s aid and pulled her to safety as Ford fled the station, according to police.
Medics rushed the woman to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center for treatment of an injured elbow and ankle.
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The Jefferson St. L subway station, where a woman was pushed onto the tracks on Thursday morning. (Shawn Inglima for New York Daily News)
Ford’s arrest comes a day after Times Square subway shover Anthonia Egegbara, 32, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a 2021 attack that left a 42-year-old New Jersey woman, Lenny Javier, with a broken arm, a broken nose, a fractured chin and ongoing emotional trauma.
Prosecutors read a letter Javier prepared for Egegbara’s sentencing at Manhattan Criminal Court Thursday.
“I found myself in some part of a nightmare, like a scene from a horror movie that I’d watched before,” Javier wrote in a statement read aloud by Andrea Kimmel, an assistant Manhattan district attorney. “The fear crawled into my life like an insect.”
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