The deranged woman who randomly pushed a Brooklyn straphanger off a subway platform on Sunday had been arguing with herself and was about to throw another person in front of the train moments before the encounter, the victim said. Ta.
Stephen Morales, 43, was walking home from East New York at about 9 a.m. when he noticed a mentally unstable woman walking on the platform of the Kosciuszko Street station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the Post reported. told.
“I saw a woman in the middle of the platform where the benches were,” Morales said Monday. “She's got some stuff in there, and I think she's just screaming and arguing over imaginary things. You know, it just bugged out.”
“I'm used to seeing people like that on the street,” he continued, “so I'm going to walk right by her.”
“So when she's rambling, I just walk right by her. And as soon as I get to her, I'm like, boom! She just pushed me. is.”
Police and law enforcement officials said a woman wearing a long gray trench coat threw Morales onto the J Line tracks.
And Morales said everything seemed to be happening in slow motion.
“I thought to myself, 'I can't believe I fell into a truck,'” he said, adding that he landed on his back.
“I don't know this woman. We never spoke. …I see her all the time, but I never thought I would be one of those people.”
Morales' mother Evelyn, 66, was upset and crying on Monday.
“Luckily there was no train. She could have killed him,” said the distraught mother. “They almost killed my son and I didn't know.”
Morales said he was unable to return to the platform after the fall and walked along the tracks until he hit the service stairs and returned to the waiting room.
“I wake up and see her still rambling,” he said. “I had a key chain with a long rope attached to it, and as I was swinging it around, I started screaming at her, 'You're crazy!' You're trying to kill me. I did it!”
Police arrived at about the same time, and Morales told them what the woman had done.
“I'm like, 'She pushed me over the tracks!'” said Morales, who may begin to experience pain that would later be diagnosed as a broken knee, a hairline fracture in his wrist, and contusions to his head and shoulders. He added that there is.
“I told the conductor at the tollbooth that I needed an ambulance.”
Police then told him that others had called to say a middle-aged woman was taunting people and trying to push them onto the railroad tracks.
He was treated at Woodhull Hospital and released.
Morales' mother said she was crying when she picked up her son and called on the city to stop such senseless crimes.
“They have to do something. This is bad. They can't go out,” she said. “We are living here in hell, and we cannot go out. … We are thankful that the Lord is with us.”
But despite this shocking and deadly incident, Morales harbors no ill will towards the woman.
“I hope no harm comes to her, because it was psychological,” he said. “May God bless her wherever she is found. She needs help.”
He also said people like her should be institutionalized.
“All I have to do is take my medicine and go home,” Morales said. “It's sad because the current system means that mentally unhealthy people are around mentally healthy people.”
On Monday, two officers were stationed on the Manhattan side of the station platform, saying they were there to increase police presence in the wake of the near-tragedy.
The NYPD continues to search for the woman who fled after the incident.
