Crime & Safety

Police ID Midtown Subway Shove Suspect, Photos: NYPD

Investigators are looking for the man they said shoved a woman into a moving train in a Midtown subway station at noon on Wednesday.

Police said the suspect in the subway shove is named Sabir Jones, 39.
Police said the suspect in the subway shove is named Sabir Jones, 39. (NYPD)

MIDTOWN, NY — Police have released the name and an image of the man they say critically injured a woman after shoving her into a moving Midtown train on Wednesday.

NYPD Transit Chief Michael Kemper said officers are looking for Sabir Jones, 39, following the seemingly unprovoked shove that left the victim, a 30-year-old woman, with head trauma and in critical condition.

“New Yorkers put up with a lot," MTA Chairman Janno Lieber said at a Wednesday press briefing."But when young people, ambitious young people, who are just trying to live their lives, are subject to random attacks, we can’t put up with it."

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At around noon on Wednesday, the woman was standing on the southbound E train platform at the 5th Ave-53rd Street subway station when she was shoved by the suspect, police said.

She slammed into a departing train and then tumbled to the roadbed, where she was rescued by fellow straphangers, Kemper said at the press briefing.

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First responders brought her to New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition.

The suspected shover has an apparent history of mental illness and was arrested last December for riding between trains, according to New York Post.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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