Current Events > Man killed after being pushed in front of moving NYC train in unprovoked attack

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/nyregion/subway-shoving-manhattan.html

A 24-year-old man was arrested Monday night and charged with murder after pushing another man to his death on the subway tracks at a station in East Harlem, the police said. The attack by the man, Carlton McPherson, was unprovoked, officials said. It took place at the 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station at 6:48 p.m., when Mr. McPherson shoved the man in front of an oncoming No. 4 train, officials said. The conductor was unable to stop the train in time to save him, the police said. The police had not identified the victim as of Tuesday morning. A senior law enforcement official said Monday evening that the man who was in custody appeared to have a history of mental illness. He had several arrests in Brooklyn, the first one at age 16, the official said. Train service at the station had resumed by 9 p.m. Monday, but a large number of police officers remained at the scene. Some riders expressed fear of violence on platforms and on trains. The subway has been insane lately, Ray Velez, 60, from the Bronx, said as he waited on the platform two hours after the attack. You have to look everywhere now. Its just out of control. He added, I wish someone would notice how many mentally ill people we have on the subways and try to get them out of the subway. Others who live and work near the station expressed a weary sense of frustration. They described regular encounters with people experiencing problems related to drug addiction, homelessness and mental illness, and their own efforts to remain on guard. Im very careful inside the station, said Geri Tolentino, 54, who has worked for two years at the Harlem Food Square deli, near the entrance to the 125th Street station.

Its not surprising theres a lot of crime downstairs. The attack is the latest in a series of violent episodes that have led officials to increase the police presence in the subway and seek to reassure New Yorkers that the system is safe. Earlier this month, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that she would deploy the National Guard and the State Police in the system to increase security and ease New Yorkers fears. But less than two weeks after Ms. Hochuls announcement, a fight on the A train that ended with a shooting reinforced the difficulties of policing every inch of the sprawling system. In that confrontation, captured in a dramatic video recorded by a passenger, a man who had been menacing a rider was first stabbed and then shot with his own handgun. Mondays attack happened hours after Police Department leaders had gathered at a different subway station on West 125th Street in Harlem to announce that an additional 800 police officers would be sent into the subway to crack down on fare evasion. Our riders should not be subjected to open acts of lawlessness anywhere in our subway system, Timothy Skretch, deputy chief of the Transit Bureau, said at the news conference, and that tone of law and order must start at the fare gates.

Its never happened but Im scared of my brain glitching and I do something like this while Im sleep deprived. I dont think it when Im actually in public but when Im just thinking to myself while bored gaming I do think of if I did that by accident and it makes me a bit stressed

Are the National Guard still in those sub ways? Havent heard or seen anything about it in a minuet, no that they could stop something like this.

I can't even believe people in NY still stand right on the yellow line >_>

I never get within 10 feet of a train while it's still moving

super_felicia posted...

Its never happened but Im scared of my brain glitching and I do something like this while Im sleep deprived. I dont think it when Im actually in public but when Im just thinking to myself while bored gaming I do think of if I did that by accident and it makes me a bit stressed

Honestly, I keep this shit to myself, but I'm in a similar boat.

thronedfire2 posted...

I can't even believe people in NY still stand right on the yellow line >_>

I never get within 10 feet of a train while it's still moving

I picked NY Times as the source since others might get attacked. The other sources which are unfavorable go into more detail such as

https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/us-news/witness-recounts-fatal-nyc-subway-shove-by-deranged-career-criminal-timed-it-perfectly/

The deranged man who allegedly shoved a straphanger to his death timed it perfectly with an oncoming train and pushed with all his might, a witness to the terrifying, random attack said Tuesday. Carlton McPherson, 24, got off an uptown train at the East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station Monday and stood on the platform for just a matter of minutes before allegedly lunging at his victim, according to the witness and a source familiar with the case. He like timed it perfectly, witness Andriel Recio, 28, told The Post. He was walking scoping out the area, looking back and forth everywhere, Recio recalled. And as the train was approaching, he just snuck behind the guy and just cocked back and pushed him with, like, all his might. The guy just like, flew onto the tracks, Recio said of the victim.

damn, RIP to the victim.

I know in some countries, they have those safety rails, where the only opening is for the subway doors when it comes by, and they're closed until then - hopefully, something along those lines can be implemented in New York subways in the future, because attacks like these aren't new.

thronedfire2 posted...

I can't even believe people in NY still stand right on the yellow line >_>

I never get within 10 feet of a train while it's still moving

Just the thought of maybe falling over into the tracks is enough for me tbh.

If it becomes a big enough concern they could always install electronic gates that open when the train arrives and comes to a stop, like what they have for pretty much every amusement park ride.

BlueTigerLion posted...

I picked NY Times as the source since others might get attacked. The other sources which are unfavorable go into more detail such as

https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/us-news/witness-recounts-fatal-nyc-subway-shove-by-deranged-career-criminal-timed-it-perfectly/

The deranged man who allegedly shoved a straphanger to his death timed it perfectly with an oncoming train and pushed with all his might, a witness to the terrifying, random attack said Tuesday. Carlton McPherson, 24, got off an uptown train at the East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue station Monday and stood on the platform for just a matter of minutes before allegedly lunging at his victim, according to the witness and a source familiar with the case. He like timed it perfectly, witness Andriel Recio, 28, told The Post. He was walking scoping out the area, looking back and forth everywhere, Recio recalled. And as the train was approaching, he just snuck behind the guy and just cocked back and pushed him with, like, all his might. The guy just like, flew onto the tracks, Recio said of the victim.

yeah but you'd still have to be right near the line for that to happen. even a full body shove isn't going to launch someone much more than 5 feet.

obviously not victim blaming, just saying why I get nowhere near the train until it's stopped. if it's busy enough people would want to be close though.

thronedfire2 posted...

I can't even believe people in NY still stand right on the yellow line >_>

I never get within 10 feet of a train while it's still moving

Same. I've even expressed this sentiment, and been called paranoid for it.

Well guess who's who's not paranoid and not alive? Not me.

thronedfire2 posted...

yeah but you'd still have to be right near the line for that to happen. even a full body shove isn't going to launch someone much more than 5 feet.

obviously not victim blaming, just saying why I get nowhere near the train until it's stopped. if it's busy enough people would want to be close though.

Technically you are victim blaming. If someone stands near yellow line they don't expect to be pushed.

There isn't a video and the witness didn't say where they were standing. This person could have also been standing further back and this push was enough to put them on tracks.

BlueTigerLion posted...

Technically you are victim blaming. If someone stands near yellow line they don't expect to be pushed.

There isn't a video and the witness didn't say where they were standing. This person could have also been standing further back and this push was enough to put them on tracks.

lmao fuck you

this is like 10th story of this in the last year?

if you're in NYC you should at least be wary of getting pushed in front of a train at this point

BlueTigerLion posted...

Technically you are victim blaming.

This term being misused again.

That's fucked up. Truly some psychos out there.

Tropicalwood posted...

electronic gates

oh yea, this is what I was trying to talk about.

thronedfire2 posted...

lmao fuck you

this is like 10th story of this in the last year?

if you're in NYC you should at least be wary of getting pushed in front of a train at this point

I spent a week in Queens in 2003. I went through all of the main boroughs. I made sure to hang back and wait for th rush. I was usually one of the last on.

I was at some station in mid Brooklyn where I standing about 15ft away from the tracks.I could feel the pull from a passing train.

Geez man, that's fucked. I literally will look around me in crowded stations when the train is coming.

I always keep an eye on the people around me on the platform for this very reason. Sad that this is something you have to worry about nowadays.