The deranged lady who randomly shoved a Brooklyn straphanger off the subway platform Sunday had been arguing with herself moments earlier than the encounter — and had tried to toss others in entrance of the practice, the sufferer stated.
Steven Morales, 43, instructed The Publish he’d been strolling on the Kosciuszko Avenue station platform in Bedford-Stuyvesant at round 9 a.m. as he made his means house from East New York when he seen a mentally unstable lady.
“I see the woman, like, in the middle of the platform where the benches are,” Morales stated on Monday. “She has her bags there. And she’s just screaming and arguing, I guess, at the imaginary. You know, just bugged out.”
“I’m used to seeing people like that on the street,” he continued, “so I’m just gonna’ walk right by her.”
“So as she’s rambling, I just walk right by her. And as soon as I get to her it was like, boom! She just pushed me.”
The girl — clad in an extended, grey trench coat — tossed Morales onto the J practice tracks, police and regulation enforcement sources stated.
And Morales stated the entire thing appeared to occur in sluggish movement.
“In my mind, I’m like, ‘I can’t believe I’m falling onto the track,’” he stated, including that he landed flat on his again.
“I don’t know this lady. We didn’t even exchange words. … You see it all the time. But you never think you’re going to be one of those people.”
Morales’ mom, Evelyn, 66, was left shaken and sobbing Monday.
“Luckily there was no train — she could have killed him,” the distraught mother stated. “They almost killed my son and I didn’t even know.”
Morales stated he couldn’t climb again onto the platform after the autumn, so he walked down the tracks till he hit a service stairwell that introduced him again to the ready space.
“When I come up, I still see her rambling,” he stated. “I had a keychain with a long rope, so I’m swinging it and I start yelling at her, ‘You’re crazy! You tried to kill me!’”
The cops arrived across the similar time, and Morales instructed them what the girl did.
“I’m like, ‘She just pushed me onto the tracks!’” Morales stated, including that he might begin to really feel the ache of what would later be identified as a fractured knee, hairline wrist fracture and a bruised head and shoulder.
“I told the conductor in the toll booth that I need an ambulance.”
Later, the cops would inform him that others had referred to as to say a middle-aged lady had been taunting individuals and making an attempt to shove them onto the tracks, too.
He was handled at Woodhull Hospital and launched.
Morales’ mother stated her son was crying when she picked him up — and he or she referred to as on town to halt such mindless crimes.
“They have to do something— this is bad. You can’t even go out,” she stated. “We are living here in hell. You can’t even go outside. … I thank the Lord that he’s with us.”
However regardless of the traumatic and near-fatal occasion, Morales has no in poor health will towards the girl.
“I wish her no harm, because it was a mental thing,” he stated. “God bless her, wherever they can find her. She needs help.”
He additionally stated individuals like her must be institutionalized.
“Now, it’s just take some medication and go home,” Morales stated. “It’s sad because the system right now — you got the people who are not mentally healthy around mentally healthy people.”
On Monday, two cops have been posted on the Manhattan-bound aspect of the station platform — and stated they have been there to bolster police presence within the wake of the near-tragedy.
The NYPD remains to be looking for the girl, who fled after the incident.
