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Man Faces Attempted Murder for Shoving Stranger in Front of NYC Subway 

Man Faces Attempted Murder for Shoving Stranger in Front of NYC Subway. Credit | Getty Images

United States: A man who is already in critical condition after being so shoved onto the subway tracks in New York City on New Year’s Eve. The 45-year-old was also hit by a train but survived and is now also in the stable condition at the hospital. This incident is part of a recent rise in subway violence. 

“This had to be done by the hand of God; he fell perfectly in the trench,” one police source said to the Post.  

As reported by the Fox News, Police officers took a call of an ongoing assault at the subway station on Tuesday afternoon, which was a 911 call.  

Police arrived and discovered the 45-year-old man had been hit by a southbound train after the publication stated he was pushed onto the subway tracks. 

On the screen the victim is seen holding his phone and a hooded male on the rail line edge of the platform as the train arrives at the station. 

Kamel Hawkins, 23, has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly shoving a 45-year-old man onto subway tracks while a train approached. Credit | MTA
Kamel Hawkins, 23, has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly shoving a 45-year-old man onto subway tracks while a train approached. Credit | MTA

Though police did not identify the victim, the suspected attacker is 23-year-old Kamel Hawkins who came to the stranger’s aid at gun point and has now been charged with attempted murder. 

The perpetrator has been described as a 45-year-old man who left the 25-year-old victim critically injured at a hospital. 

Today’s attack occurs just under two weeks after a woman — who has been named as 57-year-old Debrina Kawam — was burned alive as she slept on a train in Brooklyn on December 22nd. She died and a man has been arrested and charged with the offenses that lead to her death, murder, and arson. 

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