{"id":133678,"date":"2026-02-14T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133678\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:14:08","slug":"suspect-questioned-for-deranged-brooklyn-subway-assaults-on-women-including-shoving-one-victim-onto-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133678\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect questioned for deranged Brooklyn subway assaults on women, including shoving one victim onto tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/36918280386_6c167eaee4_o.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Brooklyn subway platform where two women were assaulted\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Suspect questioned for deranged Brooklyn subway assaults on women, including shoving one victim onto tracks 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police in Brooklyn have apprehended a suspect who attacked two women at the 53rd Street station on the R line Saturday morning \u2014 punching one victim while shoving another onto the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Marc A. Hermann \/ MTA New York City Transit<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Police in <a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> have apprehended a suspect who attacked two women at a subway station Saturday morning \u2014 punching one victim while shoving another onto the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said the rampage occurred just before 8:45 a.m. on Feb. 14 at the 53rd Street station on the R line in Sunset Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the case said the suspect, a 25-year-old man, approached one of the victims, a 51-year-old woman, and punched her in the face.\n<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrator then turned his attention to the second victim, a 43-year-old woman, and shoved her onto the tracks. Following the attacks, he fled out of the station to the street above.\n<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old woman was able to get off the tracks before a train could arrive, according to reports on the Citizen app.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd72pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">72nd Precinct<\/a> and NYPD Transit District 34 responded to the scene. The first victim suffered facial injuries, while the 43-year-old woman sustained pain in her knee and back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During a search, police apprehended the suspect at a shelter on the 5100 block of 20th Avenue in Brooklyn. He was taken into custody for questioning, with charges against him pending the results of the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Brooklyn have apprehended a suspect who attacked two women at the 53rd Street station on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[57066,57067,57068,98,19820,100,99,57069,9,24,63,103,57070,308,57071,57072,57073,57074,7125,57075,57076],"class_list":["post-133678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-53rd-street-station","tag-72nd-precinct","tag-assault-investigation","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-crime","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-february-14-incident","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-nypd-transit-district-34","tag-public-safety","tag-pushed-onto-tracks","tag-r-line","tag-subway-attack","tag-subway-violence","tag-sunset-park","tag-suspect-apprehended","tag-women-assaulted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}