Subway Rider Shoved to Tracks in Brooklyn
BUSHWICK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A man is recovering from a broken collarbone, sprains and bruises after being shoved onto the subway tracks in Brooklyn.
David Martin, 32, is a lifelong New Yorker who has taken the subway since middle school and was taking it to work on Friday when he was attacked at the Wycoff Myrtle station in Bushwick for no reason, by someone he barely saw.
"In the blink of an eye, I was pushed with full force into the train tracks," said Martin. Police say the attack was unprovoked.
While Martin says he may not have made contact with the train or the third rail, he is still badly hurt. "People were told that I had no injuries, but I am laying in bed with a broken collarbone and my face is so swollen. And mentally I don't know how to even get through this," he said.
Martin says he doesn't know how he can feel safe again on the subway - and that is hard to grapple with. "Because I'm from New York, and I've always felt safe taking the train and now at 32 years old, I no longer feel safe and that's not fair, and that's not ok," Martin adds.
Martin says he obviously wants the person who attacked him caught.
Friday's shove comes just a day after two other subway attacks -- one involving a kitchen knife and another involving a samurai sword -- amid an uptick in violence that has seen five people killed in the transit system in the last few weeks, reported nbc ny.