Escalator attack susp dressed well
A commuter accused of kicking a woman down a Brooklyn subway escalator was nabbed by police at his home, cops said Saturday.
Bradley Hill, 32, wearing a blue dress shirt and a dark business suit, ignored questions from reporters as he was led out of a NYPD Transit Bureau station in Coney Island after his Friday arrest.
Hill was charged with assault and attempted assault.
The victim, a 30-year-old mother riding up the escalator at the Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center station the evening of Sept. 9, said she knew about the arrest.
“I’m still uneasy talking about it,” the woman said Friday night. “It was a bad experience.”
The violence occurred after the commuter brushed past the woman on the escalator, and she asked if he could say “excuse me.”
“I did,” he said before kicking her in the chest and running away, according to police.
The woman fell several feet to the bottom of the escalator. She suffered cuts and bruises to her back, arms and legs but refused medical attention at the scene.
Hill, who lives in an apartment building near the Barclays Center in Boerum Hill, does not have a criminal record, cops said.
The victim, a fashion design student, told the Daily News she was on her way home from class when she was attacked.
“I said, ‘Say excuse me.’ Just those three words,” the victim told The News. “And then I looked the other way. He aggressively responded, ‘I did say excuse me.’ And boom, he automatically kicked me in the chest. Oh my God, it was from the top of the escalator at Barclay Center all the way to the bottom.”
“This was more than stairs. Escalators are spiky and moving,” she recounted. “They’re bigger and sharp. All over my body. I’m covered like I was clawed by a tiger.”
“I’ve never seen him before, and I hope he’s never seen me before,” she added. “And I hope I never see him again.”