Teen Arrested In West Village Subway Attack: NYPD

WEST VILLAGE, NY — A 16-year-old girl was arrested and charged Tuesday morning following last week's viral subway fight between a trio of friends and a family visiting the city, according to officials.

The teen, whose name was not released due to her age, turned herself into the 6th Precinct at 9:45 a.m., according to the New York Post.

Police officials said the girl has been charged with two counts of assault.

On Thursday, at about 8 p.m., a 51-year-old woman sitting with her family onboard a downtown F train at the West Fourth Street subway station got involved in an argument with a trio of young woman, police said.

The victim, Nevada resident Sue Young, told the New York Post that the three girls were pointing and laughing at them, and that things escalated to insults and threats when the mom tried to laugh with them.

Viral social media video show the trio sitting across from a family inside a subway car and yelling at them from their seats.

“You lucky your two kids is here because I would have smashed you,” the teen shouts at the 51-year-old, according to the video footage.

After trying to fend off another member of the group who was screaming in the mom's face, Young told the Post, the 16-year-old came in swinging, grabbing each other's hair, bruising the young mom's arm and smashing her glasses.

Fellow subway riders leapt to action and confronted the trio, who then fled the train, according to video footage and officials.

While the police at first announced the attack as a potential hate crime, Young says she doesn't think racial animus was behind the incident, she told the Post.

Joanna Lin, a straphanger who recorded the incident, told the storied tabloid how she was heartened to hear that the teen turned herself in.

“I am relieved that she made the decision to turn herself in. In a perfect world, I would love if she can issue an apology to myself and Sue Young, and promise to never ever do this again,” Lin told the New York Post. “I also hope she gets therapy, counseling, and mentorship needed to move up from here.”