Upper East Side, Manhattan (WABC) — Trevor Crawford told Eyewitness News that even doing something as simple as sitting up was extremely difficult. The 74-year-old great-grandfather is still in pain after he allegedly pushed several of his ribs onto the subway tracks after Derrick Mills allegedly pushed him onto the subway tracks.
“I come back from get off work, I don’t bother anybody. I put my phone in my pocket, play music, take a walk, go home,” Crawford said.
Crawford had just finished a 12-hour shift early Tuesday morning and was heading back home to Brooklyn. The father of three from Jamaica encountered the suspect inside the station at 68 Lexington Ave., who police said was initially talking to himself.
“I heard a voice say ‘Didn’t I tell you not to say anything to me?'” Crawford said.
Crawford didn’t think the suspect was talking to him, so he kept walking – with his attacker following close behind.
“He came around the pillar, looked at me and said ‘Didn’t you hear that? I said you didn’t say anything to me,’ so I turned around and said ‘Listen, I don’t know you, don’t bother me.’ ,” Crow Ford said.
However, the suspect did not let him go.
“His eyes were wide open. He ran, pushed twice. He used two hands – boom boom, like a cannonball to lift me up, lift me up, lift me off the platform. I was on the subway It fell off between the lines,” Crawford said.
Crawford said he was conscious the entire time he lay on the tracks, and a sign on the platform indicated a train was due to pull into the station in about seven minutes.
“I saw a couple of transit workers and I said help,” Crawford added.
Later, bus staff pulled him to the platform.
Mills took off but was arrested two days later.
Crawford said now he wants justice.
He said: “The transportation system should be more careful for people like this, and the government should take care of these people and not let them go to the streets and disturb other people’s lives.”
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