New York City police have arrested a man who they say threw a woman onto subway tracks in an unprovoked attack over the weekend, officials said Tuesday.
Highlights
- Theodore Ellis, 30, was arrested Tuesday on charges of first-degree assault and reckless endangerment.
- Surveillance video shows a man in a white tank top, shorts, a backward baseball cap and a backpack appearing to grab the woman before he flings her onto the tracks.
- The 52-year-old woman was taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where she was stable, police said.
- A string of deadly or violent incidents on New York city rail lines in recent months have included: Daniel Enriquez, 48, a Brooklyn resident and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
- employee, was gunned down May 22.
- Michelle Go, 40, was struck and killed by a subway train on Jan.