Police from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica and Transit District 20 are looking for a suspect who shoved an E train rider onto the tracks at the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue–JFK Airport subway station on Thursday morning.
The 39-year-old victim was standing on the southbound platform at around 4:40 a.m. when a stranger approached him and pushed him onto the track bed below in an unprovoked attack, police said Friday. The suspect fled the station onto Sutphin Boulevard and ran off in an unknown direction. EMS responded to the scene and transported the injured man to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
The NYPD released surveillance images of the suspect on Friday and described him as having a light complexion, with dark hair and a beard with no mustache, and a large tattoo on his left bicep. He was last seen wearing a white tank top, tan cargo pants and dark sneakers.
Anyone with information regarding this assault investigation is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are confidential.
Through May 18, the 103rd Precinct has reported 277 felony assaults so far in 2025, 20 more than the 257 reported at the same point last year, an increase of 7.8%, according to the most recent CompStat report. Transit crimes are also on the rise in the precinct with 11 reported so far this year, two more than the nine reported at the same point in 2024, an increase of 22.2%, according to CompStat.
