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Maniac accused of randomly shoving woman, 82, onto NYC subway tracks is busted, charged with attempted murder: cops

By
Amanda Woods
Published Oct. 7, 2024, 7:08 p.m. ET

The maniac accused of randomly shoving an 82-year-old woman onto Queen🌃s subway tracks last week was busted Monday and charged with attempted mu🥃rder, cops said.

Br🔯andon Harris, 35 – who lives down the block from the Flushing-Main Street No. 7 station where the vicious Wednesday attack occurred – also faces a felony assault rap, authorities said.

H𒆙arris, a complete stranger to the elderly vi🅠ctim, pushed her just before noon while the train sat in the station, according to authorities.

3/9/23 A person was struck and killed by a number 7 train at the Bryant Park subway stop near the corner of 5th Avenue and 42nd Street around 3:30 p.m.
Brandon Harris, 35, was charged with attempted murder and assault in the noon Wednesday attack at the Flushing-Main Street No. 7 station, cops said. Gregory P. Mango

The senior hit her head on the side of the subway — leaving behind a bloody scene — before she landed on the tra💛cks between cars, sources said.

She was rushed by EMTs to🎉 NewYork-Presbyterian Queens 💜Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition.

Har🙈ris has four prior arrests – the most recent in ▨July of 2020 for a misdemeanor assault sparked by a dispute with the victim, cops said.

October 2, 2024 -- Stranger shoves 82-year-old woman onto NYC train tracks in random attack at Flushing-Main Street 7 station
Harris has four prior arrests, the most recent for a misdemeanor assault in 2020, cops said. Citizen

He was arrested for public lewdness in both 2019 and 2015, and was cuffed anot𒈔her time in 2015 for robbery of a motor vehicle, police said.

In an unrelated subway shove about two weeks earlier, Shadrach Ford, 30, senselessly pushed a 62-year-old woman onto th�﷽�e tracks at the Jefferson Street station in Bushwick – all because s🅷he ignored his r🐷equest for a lighter, cops and sources said.

Quick-acting꧒ bystanders pulled her back to safety, according to the sources.

Ford was also charged with attem🃏pted murder, as well as attempted criminally negligent homicide, assault, reckless endangerment, harassment and criminal trespass, authoriti🍰es said.