Man Arrested After Shoving Woman Towards Oncoming R Train
A fashion merchandise creative director is relieved to be alive after a man shoved her into an oncoming subway train at the 28th Street R station on Wednesday. Ute Linhart hit the train and then the impact threw her back onto the uptown platform; she told the Post, "As the impact happened, I'm thinking, 'I'm going to be dead.' Then I realized that I was in so much pain, I couldn't possibly be dead."
The incident occurred around 8:00 p.m. when Linhart was waiting for an uptown train. According to the Post, Jose Rojas, a cook at Cipriani, was "on the platform pointing in a menacing gun-like gesture at several other straphangers when he made a beeline for the victim." She says, "He stood next to me for a few seconds and stared at my face. He looked insane." Then he allegedly pushed her into the train's path. When she was thrown back onto the platform—suffering suffering ribs, a broken left arm, and right cheek—another person waiting for a train grabbed her, softening her blow.
Others stopped Rojas from leaving the station.
When the cops asked Rojas his name, he allegedly answered, "My name is Osama bin Laden, f--k you!" and was taken to Bellevue because he was so drunk. He was charged with attempted murder and assault, though his lawyer argued that the attempted murder charge was too much,
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Linhart, who is still at Bellevue, told the Post, "I'm never going to go down [to the subway] there again. I'd rather pay for a cab or walk or take the bus. I wasn't even standing near the edge. I was a few feet away."
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