Crime & Safety
Mom Turns In Teen Son For Park Slope Subway Strangulation: NYPD
A 16-year-old now stands accused of strangling a woman in the Grand Army Plaza subway station last weekend, police said.
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A mom turned her 16-year-old son in to police after cops released images of suspects wanted for strangling a young straphanger in a local subway station, police said.
The mother chaperoned her teen son at about 7 p.m. Wednesday to the 78th Precinct, where he was charged with strangulation, police said.
The arrest came one day after police reported a 25-year-old woman had been randomly attacked while she sat in the Grand Army Plaza subway station early Sunday morning.
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Police said unreleased video footage suggests the arrested teen is the person who strangled the woman.
The video also shows an older man in the group seemingly giving instructions and direction to the others in the group, possibly signaling the chokehold was part of a gang initiation, police said.
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Other members of the group have yet to be identified and police said the investigation remains ongoing.
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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