Elderly man pushed onto Brooklyn subway tracks after accidental assault
Police sources said the man was pushed onto the tracks in an unprovoked attack in Brooklyn on Sunday.
The 66-year-old victim was waiting for a Manhattan-bound train at President Street-Medgar Evers College Station in Crown Heights when a man pushed him off the platform around 3:00 pm, police said.
The victim did not touch the train or the electrified third rail, but suffered minor injuries when he fell onto the track. He was taken to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in a stable condition.
According to sources, the victim and the attacker did not know each other.
On Sunday afternoon, the police were still looking for the perpetrator.
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