Good Samaritans banded together to quickly help rescue a man who was shoved onto the subway tracks on Christmas Day.
The incident happened around 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday at the 125th Street station near Lenox Avenue in Harlem. A police spokesperson said that Jose Gonzalez, 54, shoved a 55-year-old man onto the southbound 2/3 tracks. Thankfully, four people who were waiting at the platform mobilized to help the man before the next train arrived.
“I’m standing right over here and I see the guy fall onto the tracks,” one of those good Samaritans, Kirk Abbott, told CBS. “I had [the others] get down on the tracks. I ran to the edge of the platform so I could wave the train down with my flashlight and have the train slow down,”
You can see video of the rescue below. “He was in and out of consciousness. He still didn’t know what happened to him,” Abbott added.
Gonzalez was arrested and charged with two counts of assault and reckless endangerment.
In a separate incident, a man was fatally struck by a train in Brooklyn on Thursday morning. That incident happened around 7 a.m. at the Newkirk Plaza station in Flatbush. Police said the victim has not been identified yet. The Post adds that some commuters were grousing about late trains at the station as a result.
