{"id":164328,"date":"2026-03-15T18:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/164328\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:31:22","slug":"straphanger-55-dies-after-madman-knocks-him-out-at-nycs-penn-station-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/164328\/","title":{"rendered":"Straphanger, 55, dies after madman knocks him out at NYC\u2019s Penn Station: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:NY Post;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"NY Post\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"194\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/46c6ce20-b635-11ee-babf-0468df94f866.png\"\/><\/a>Sun, March 15, 2026 at 5:05 AM UTC<img alt=\"An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows The suspect of the fatal 34th Street-Penn subway station assault seen on the platform before he fled the area, Image 2 shows Sign for the 34 Street Penn Station subway stop with blue circles for the A, C, and E lines\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"828\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b593f5bafa36ccdd4126eaf66a237922.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows The suspect of the fatal 34th Street-Penn subway station assault seen on the platform before he fled the area, Image 2 shows Sign for the 34 Street Penn Station subway stop with blue circles for the A, C, and E lines<\/p>\n<p>A 55-year-old Brooklyn man died after he was knocked out by a maniac at Penn Station Saturday night, according to police and sources.<\/p>\n<p>The straphanger fell victim to the senseless violence after bumping into the suspect on the northbound C and E train platform at the 34th Street-Penn subway station just before 7 p.m., law enforcement sources told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>A heated argument erupted between the pair and the suspect clobbered the victim in the face, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The suspect of the fatal 34th Street-Penn subway station assault seen on the platform before he fled the area. Supplied\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"359\" height=\"706\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/af54c6b69b8aec161f5d3b74f03d1383.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The suspect of the fatal 34th Street-Penn subway station assault seen on the platform before he fled the area. Supplied<\/p>\n<p>The victim then stumbled around the platform for about five minutes before collapsing, while his attacker fled.<\/p>\n<p>Police then found the victim unconscious and unresponsive at the station just before 7 p.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>First responders attempted life-saving measures before the man was rushed to Lenox Hill Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The unidentified straphanger was found unconscious and unresponsive on the northbound platform for the C and E trains at the 34th Street-Penn Station subway station Robert Miller\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dcd93ddbbc170dfc98a4df410bb52e8c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The unidentified straphanger was found unconscious and unresponsive on the northbound platform for the C and E trains at the 34th Street-Penn Station subway station Robert Miller<\/p>\n<p>The assailant remained in the wind early Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, March 15, 2026 at 5:05 AM UTC An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35341,9,56,63,65,64,7968,67573,1657],"class_list":["post-164328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-law-enforcement-sources","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-penn-station","tag-straphanger","tag-subway-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164328","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=164328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}