the madman accused randomly pushing an 82 year old woman He was busted Monday on a Queens subway track last week and charged with attempted murder, police said.
Brandon Harris, 35 — who lives down the block from the Flushing-Main Street No. 7 station where the deadly attack happened Wednesday — also suffered a serious assault, authorities said.
According to authorities, Harris, a complete stranger to the elderly victim, pushed her just before noon while the train was parked at the station.
Sources said Senior hit her head on the side of the metro – causing a bloody scene – before she fell on the tracks between the cars.
He was taken by EMTs to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
Police said Harris has four previous arrests – the most recent being in July 2020 for rape stemming from a dispute with the victim.
Police said he was arrested for public indecency in both 2019 and 2015, and was arrested a second time in 2015 for larceny of a motor vehicle.
In an unrelated subway push about two weeks earlier, Shadrack Ford, 30, A 62 year old woman was rudely pushed on the track. at the Jefferson Street Station in Bushwick — because he ignored her request for a lighter, police and sources said.
According to sources, bystanders took immediate action and pulled him back to a safe place.
Ford was charged with attempted murder as well as attempted murder by criminal negligence, assault, reckless endangerment, harassment and criminal trespass, authorities said.
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