A 64-year-old MTA employee with greater than a decade on the job was slashed throughout his neck by a crazed, drunken man strolling on Brooklyn subway tracks late Monday, cops and sources mentioned.
The MTA energy distribution supervisor was sitting outdoors a break home inside the tunnel on the southbound No. 3 line close to Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights round 10:40 p.m. when he noticed the allegedly intoxicated man strolling on the roadbed, authorities and sources mentioned.
The employee repeatedly requested the intruder to get off the tracks, prompting the unhinged man to chop him on his neck with a “sharp object,” cops and sources mentioned.
The sufferer – who has been on the job for about 11 years, in accordance with the MTA – was taken to the Kings County Hospital Heart, the place he’s listed in secure situation.
“I spoke to him earlier this morning. He was in secure situation,” NYC Transit President Demitrius Crichlow informed The Publish. “Appears to be in fairly good spirits. One thing like this could not occur for our workers.
“They need to have the ability to are available in in the identical situation and go dwelling in the identical situation,” he mentioned.
Energy was briefly minimize off for oncoming trains in the course of the late-night violent ordeal, sources mentioned.
In the meantime, the attacker – described as a person with a darkish complexion and slim construct, final seen carrying a black and white shirt – ran off via the tunnel and had not been caught by Tuesday morning, cops mentioned.
