Man Who Pushed Stranger Into Subway Begged To Be Hospitalized

FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NY — The man who shoved a subway rider onto Lower Manhattan train tracks earlier this month urged his doctors to hospitalize him because he is a paranoid schizophrenic, the New York Post reported.

Jakim Jeter, 20, was arrested on attempted-murder and assault charges for the Nov. 9 incident when he pushed Edwin Pinez — a complete stranger to Jeter — onto the subway tracks of the Brooklyn Bridge station on the 6 line, police said.

He was arrested on Nov. 15 near his home in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx after someone called in a tip through the Crime Stoppers hotline, said cops.

But for at least a year and a half before the subway shoving, Jeter and his family had begged his doctors at Montefiore Hospital to commit him for fear of hurting himself or other New Yorkers, Jakim's mother told The Post.

“I’ve been telling this doctor myself that he’s going to wind up killing somebody or he’s going to kill himself. He never returned the calls back or he’d say, ‘We have to look, there’s a process before we can get him a bed,’” Theresa Jeter fumed to the newspaper. “It felt like he was making excuses.”

Jeter was in the midst of a delusion when he launched Pinez onto the tracks, his family told The Post. The 55-year-old man narrowly avoided being squashed by an incoming train when a fellow subway rider managed to drag him back onto the station platform, police said.

Jeter and his grandmother, Sylvia, visited his doctors at Montefiore after the incident hoping he'd be committed, but yet again was turned away, The Post reported.

“The doctor said, ‘Well, Jakim, come back Monday,’” Sylvia Jeter told the newspaper. “You tell a psychiatrist you pushed somebody on the tracks, how do you let somebody go after that?”

Jakim was unable to make bail and is locked up in Rikers. He is due back in court on Nov. 30.

Montefiore declined to comment.

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