![]() ![]() The 24-year-old was taken into custody for questioning, Sanchez said. The man was transported to Lenox Hill Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.Īn initial investigation indicated that the victim had been in an verbal argument with a 24-year-old man that turned physical. Sanchez, a public information officer who gave only his last name. When officers arrived, they found a 30-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive, said Sgt. ![]() Officers responded to multiple 911 calls of a fight in the Broadway-Lafayette subway station in Manhattan around 2:30 p.m. They stayed like that for about 15 minutes as others called the police. People on the subway car moved away from the man even though he did not seem to want to hurt anyone, Vázquez wrote, and appeared to be suffering from a mental illness.Īnother passenger then approached the man from behind, grabbed him by his neck and took him down to the floor, Vázquez wrote. ![]() “I don’t have food, I don’t have anything to drink, I’m fed up,” the man yelled, according to Vázquez, who said the man continued to shout: “I don’t mind going to jail and getting life in prison,” and “I’m ready to die.” ![]() In a public post on the Facebook page, Vázquez wrote in Spanish that he was on the subway heading to Yonkers when the man got on. Vázquez did not immediately respond to requests for comment. ![]()
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