The subway motorman at the controls when a lunatic pushed a man in front his train said he frantically slammed on the brakes — but the 100-ton train could not stop before striking the airborne victim and killing him.
“I see a body flying across the tracks. I knew that it wasn’t an ordinary jump on the tracks. The guy didn’t go straight down, he was actually in the air,” James Muriel told The Post on Monday.
“I slammed the brakes when he was in the air. By the time I got to him he had just fallen onto the tracks, there was just nothing you can do. I need 300-400 feet to get a train to stop. It’s a 100-ton train.”
Muriel said Wai Kuen Kwok’s distraught wife, Yow Ho Lee, ran over to him and cried uncontrollably into his chest.
“She spoke to me in broken English. She said, ‘Help me! Help me! Help me. Call someone.’” He said. “I told her police and EMs are in route.”
The Poughkepsie man said he – and several passengers — all cried together after the tragedy.
“By the time I got to him he had just fallen onto the tracks — there was just nothing you can do. I was in shock,” said Muriel, 53, a 16-year train engineer. “I would like to apologize to the family. There was nothing I could have done. I used to live in the same neighborhood as the victim.
“I moved away to the suburbs because of crimes like this.”
Wai Kuen KwokPhoto: Facebook
Muriel said he was interviewed by 20 detectives and taken to a medical assessment center for a drug test.
Kwok, 61, was shoved in front of a southbound D train at the East 167th Street station in Highbridge about 8:45 a.m. Sunday.
“I just wish that people learn not to stand so close to the edge of the platform,” Muriel said. “People should always have their backs against their walls.”
NYPD Transit Bureau Chief Vincent Fox on Monday expressed sympathy to the victim’s family.
“Our deepest condolences to the family of Wai Kuen Kwok,” he said. “We’ve been working constantly throughout the night. It will be a 24/7 operation until we identify who did this.”
The NYPD is offering a $ 2,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case.
Anyone with information should contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS, or text CRIMES and then enter TIP577, or visit http://ift.tt/17IHIZe.
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