An incident on a Queens subway line
On a late Sunday night, an unhinged individual attacked an on-duty MTA operator on a stopped train at the end of a Queens subway line, as reported by the authorities.
The 38-year-old worker was in the process of clearing the M-line train of passengers at the Middle Village-Metropolitan Avenue station before midnight when the assailant suddenly launched an attack, according to the police.
The employee was violently knocked to the floor of the train car and had to be urgently taken to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center due to back pain, the cops mentioned.
The suspect, described as a man in his 50s, fled from the train and was still evading capture as of late Monday.
The MTA directed any inquiries to the NYPD.
Not the first attack on MTA personnel
This incident comes on the heels of a 44-year-old woman, working as an MTA cleaner, being sprayed with an unknown substance on a Bronx train, according to the police.
In the previous attack, the victim, a cleaner, had been working inside a train car at the Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street station around 3:40 a.m. on April 22. She woke up a sleeping woman and asked her to leave, which led to the perpetrator spraying the substance, as per the police report.
The alleged assailant fled the scene, and the worker was later hospitalized with pain, redness, and swelling on her face, the authorities disclosed at the time.
