US man arrested for pushing woman onto New York City subway tracks in caught-on-camera unprovoked attack

A video of the incident showed a man walking up behind a woman, wrapping his arms around her and tossing her onto the tracks. — Screengrab from @NYPDnews/Twitter

NEW YORK: New York City police arrested a man on June 7 suspected of pushing a woman onto the tracks at a Bronx subway station over the weekend, the latest in a string of violent crimes on one of the world’s largest transit systems.

Police said they had arrested Theodore Ellis, a 30-year-old Bronx resident, after receiving a tip. The New York Police Department had shared video of the incident showing a man walking up behind a woman, wrapping his arms around her and tossing her over the platform onto the southbound tracks on Sunday afternoon at the Jackson Avenue station.