NEW YORK – A 50-year-old man from Queens was arrested on the subway for the death of a 48-year-old man from the same district fell on the tracks and was hit by a train who was approaching as they argued over the phone, police sources and officials said Tuesday.
Carlos Garcia faces only one count of manslaughter in the case of Heriberto Quintana, who died after the two began fighting on the Roosevelt Avenue-Jackson Heights platform during a Monday night commute, police said.
According to police sources, the two men clashed on the platform just before 6pm and García’s phone ended up falling on the tracks. He allegedly ordered Quintana to get it and Quintana refused.
The two began to quarrel and Quintana ended up on the platforms as the train stopped at the station, police said. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Quintana’s death marks the ninth in the subway in 2022 and the fifth in the past two weeks.
There was a teenager on Friday shot dead on a train on the move at Far Rockaway. Three people have died since September 30 from stabbings, two in subway attacks and a third on a city bus.
Just over the weekend, a man was pushed onto the tracks of a subway station from the Bronx in what the police called an unprovoked attack. The video released the next day showed the moment when the unidentified assailant approached the man and pushed him onto the road just before a train 6 arrived. That man survived thanks to the Good Samaritans.
