Police Arrest Suspect In Subway Attack That Fractured Man's Skull

TRIBECA, NY — Police arrested a panhandler who allegedly bashed a subway rider in the head with a metal pipe after the two got into a fight on a Tribeca train, police said Monday.

The suspect, Geovannie Nieves, 35, was nabbed in Brooklyn on Sunday and charged with assault with a weapon for the Saturday night attack, police said.

The two men argued aboard a southbound 2 train near West Broadway and Chambers Street at roughly 11:15 p.m. when the fight escalated. The suspect shouted at the 59-year-old victim before pulling out a metal pipe and whacking the man the in face, fracturing the victim's skull and breaking his eye socket, the video shows.

It is not clear what the two men were arguing about. Emergency responders took the victim to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, police said.

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