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 stated.
The MTA energy distribution supervisor was sitting exterior 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 stated.
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 stated.
The sufferer – who has been on the job for about 11 years, in response to the MTA – was taken to the Kings County Hospital Middle, the place he’s listed in steady situation.
“I spoke to him earlier this morning. He was in steady situation,” NYC Transit President Demitrius Crichlow instructed The Publish. “Appears to be in fairly good spirits. One thing like this could not occur for our workers.
“They need to be capable to are available in the identical situation and go residence in the identical situation,” he stated.
Energy was briefly minimize off for oncoming trains in the course of the late-night violent ordeal, sources stated.
In the meantime, the attacker – described as a person with a darkish complexion and slim construct, final seen sporting a black and white shirt – ran off by the tunnel and had not been caught by Tuesday morning, cops stated.
