Stranger Shoves Elderly Man Onto Bronx Train Tracks in Unprovoked Attack
In a shocking incident at the 149th Street–Grand Concourse station in the Bronx, a 74-year-old man was shoved onto the train tracks by a stranger in an unprovoked attack. The suspect, identified as Deviante Collins, a 28-year-old from Brooklyn, allegedly pushed the senior onto the southbound Nos. 2 and 5 tracks around 7:15 a.m. on a Sunday morning.
The victim, who was standing with his wife at the time, did not exchange any words with Collins before the attack. After pushing the elderly man onto the tracks, Collins bizarrely exclaimed, “I didn’t do it,” before being arrested by the police.
Fortunately, Good Samaritans quickly came to the rescue and helped the straphanger back onto the platform before any trains approached, preventing further harm to the victim. The elderly man was taken to Lincoln Medical Center with minor leg injuries following the incident.
Collins, who has no prior criminal record in the city, was arrested at the scene and charged with second-degree assault, as well as reckless endangerment and harassment in the first degree.
This disturbing attack comes just a week after another similar incident where a woman shoved a man onto the Kosciuszko Street J train platform in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The suspect in that case fled the scene and has yet to be apprehended by authorities.
