A naked man pushed a passenger onto a track in the New York subway and then attacked his savior

A naked man pushed a passenger off a platform in the New York subway. Another passenger tried to help the victim, but the attacker jumped onto the rails and attacked him. As a result, the attacker died from electric shock, writes New York Post.

Police said a man without clothes wandered around the 16nd and 2rd stations on 3th Street and Central Park North on January 110. He attacked one of the passengers at about 15:40.

Another passenger, Tyler Horrell, a 55-year-old disabled veterinarian of the US Army, tried to help the victim. As soon as he jumped onto the rails, the attacker followed him and began to beat him, not allowing him to help the victim.

During the fight, the attacker touched the third rail and was killed by an electric shock. Contact (or third) rail - part metro overheadin direct contact with pantographs electric rolling stock.

Police said a train was entering the station at that time, but it managed to avoid hitting two men on the track. They were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

“This happens more often than you think,” a station clerk who worked at the checkout at the time told reporters.

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“Before, I stood at the edge of the platform, waiting for the doors to open. But I don't do that anymore. Now I'm being more careful. I'm a native New Yorker. I know what's going on here. See, I leaned back against the wall. This is because I do not want anyone to come up to me from behind, ”said one of the passengers who witnessed the incident.

"He's a good man, he just stopped taking medicine."

Later it became known that the attacker was Malik Jackson. His mother told New York Postthat he was a “good man,” but refusing to take drugs made him aggressive.

Ethel Trammell noted that her son had the character of a hero, not a villain.

“I apologize for what he did to the people on the subway,” said 53-year-old Trammell. "But it wasn't him ... My son had a good heart."

She said Jackson was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, which destroyed the social services he was receiving.

The guy was diagnosed with psychosis when he was a teenager, he began to hear voices, he became paranoid that people around him tried to dress like him.

The man did not live with his mother; he slept at a homeless shelter on 110th Street. Trammell said she hadn't seen him for nearly two weeks.

“He didn’t take medication ... If he stopped taking medication, his condition was unstable, and the longer he didn’t take medication, the more aggressive he became,” the woman explained.

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Jackson's mother said her son's health situation worsened during isolation due to the pandemic.

“In times of COVID, things are different,” she said. - Previously, he had a whole team that took care of him. But after the appearance of COVID, no one followed him. He used to have a nurse, programs and stuff. People with mental illness don't think they have a mental illness, so it's difficult. He tries his best. But if no one looks after you, does not care about you, then you can go astray. "

Since November, at least four people have been pushed onto the tracks in the New York subway. Fortunately, they all survived.