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NEW YORK (77WABC) — The NYPD is asking for the public’s help identifying a man who put a subway rider in the hospital with multiple fractures after dragging him around a subway station in Brooklyn.
On Wednesday, January 12 around 8:30 p.m. inside of the mezzanine level of the Kings Highway subway station, the rider was approached by the attacker before he was grabbed by the torso and dragged into a turnstile, a wall, and a MetroCard machine. The rider received a fractured shoulder, a fractured wrist and elbow along with a concussion and swelling to the face and forehead.
The rider was transported by EMS to Maimonides Medical Center.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website.