New York man pushed in front of subway train; attacker at large
Wai Kuen Kwok, a 61-year-old New Yorker, was pushed to death by an attacker for no obvious reason.
The incident took place around 8:45 am on Sunday morning when Kwok and his wife were about the take the subway train to Chinatown, where the often go on the weekends, The New York Times reported.
The police started searching for the assailant, who was caught on a surveillance video and was identified by the witnesses as the "attacker." There is no surveillance video of the actual attack. However the police said that in light of the other evidence they have, it is clear that the victim didn't fall on the tracks by accident and it was also not a suicide. Police questioned witnesses at the scene, including the victim's wife, 59-year-old Yow Ho Lee. They said that they didn't see any confrontation or argument between the assailant and the victim prior to the brutal attack. The motorman of the train that hit Mr. Kwok said that the victim's body unexpectedly flew in front of the train, the Times reported. According to a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a total of 49 people whave been hit and killed by New York City subway trains this year so far. Some of them were suicide and some were just accidents. For the last incident that took Mr Kwok's life, the police states that the evidence strongly suggests an attack, a kind of attack that spreads fear among New Yorkers: Getting pushed to the tracks by a stranger. The last incident before Sunday's, featuring a deliberate attack on a person by shoving them to their death took place in December 2012. A woman in Queens, Erika Menendez pushed an Indian immigrant onto the tracks and in front of the 7 train. She was charged with murder and the case was ruled a hate crime.
