Theodore Ellis, a man with a long criminal record, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of throwing a woman onto the subway tracks in the Bronx on Sunday, authorities said.
Ellis, 30, was charged with aggression and reckless recklessness, according to a spokesman for the NYPD. Detectives were hanging CrimeStoppers signs at the same station where the shooting happened when one of the officers noticed the suspect and took him into custody without incident, the NYPD said.
The suspect allegedly pushed the 52-year-old woman onto the Downtown tracks of the Westchester Avenue – Jackson Avenue station around 4:40 p.m. Sunday, according to a dramatic video of the incident.
The police told Pix11 the attack was unprovoked. Other passengers got the woman off the tracks in time and carried her back to the platform before the next train arrived. Miraculously the victim saved her life suffering only broken collarbone and cuts to the head. She was transported to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.
The suspect, a Bronx resident, has a long list of prior arrests for charges ranging from assault to larceny, police said. It is not clear why he pushed that woman onto the subway tracks.
The latest attacks opened another violent month in the New York Subway. Mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer whose election campaign focused on public safety, has implemented several measures to make the subway safer, including deploying more police officers to stations and cars, he recalled. Pix11. But the violence has not subsided.
Previously, April was one of the most violent months in the history of the New York Subway since its foundation in 1904. a blunt 84% of New Yorkers believe that conditions have worsened in the city since March 2020, when the pandemic started, according to a recent survey. Most cited the trouble in the subway As one of the main reasons for urban deterioration.
