NYPD Makes Arrest in Subway Bash, Push Attack

Surveillance Video Shows Suspect Wielding Wooden Board at City Hall Station

The NYPD made an arrest in the assault of a straphanger bashed in the head with an object. Police arrested a suspect seen here carrying a wooden board. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein 

Manhattan Voice

November 4, 2023

MANHATTAN - The NYPD has arrested a suspect in the vicious subway attack in which a straphanger was bashed upside the head with what appears to be a  a wooden board and then pushed onto the tracks in a random attack.

The NYPD has announced the arrest of 42-year-old Deming Li of Mott Street. He was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and resisting arrest.

At around 10 am on November 1, a 28-year-old male was standing on the southbound platform of the Number 6 train at the Brooklyn Bridge- City Hall subway station.

Cops said the straphanger was then hit in the side of the head from behind with an unknown object.

The attacker then pushed the dazed victim off the platform to the subway tracks below.

The attacker ran off but not before his image was captured on MTA surveillance video. The suspect was seen carrying a wooden board.

The victim was able to climb off the tracks before a train arrived. 

EMS rushed the victim to NYC Health and Hospitals/Bellevue where he was listed in stable condition.

No word for a motive in the attack.