Wife fears ‘very scary’ people as man recovers from attack
The wife of the 64-year-old straphanger recently kicked to the subway tracks at Penn Station said Monday there are too many “very scary” people looking to do others harm.
Abu Khan, a longtime Postal Service employee, was heading home from work when he was assaulted by a man who got angry the victim was unable to answer his question, according to police.
Khan was on the A/C/E platform at about 4:50 p.m. Sunday and looking at his phone when the suspect approached with a question.
The victim replied that he didn’t understand the question, at which point he was attacked.
Other straphangers helped get him safely back to the platform and medics took him to Lenox Hill Greenwich Village, where he is recovering from bruises to his back, right arm, right shoulder and right leg, police said.
“He just call me and whole night I talk to him,” said the wife, Jahan Khan. “His feeling is too much pain — whole body. “People are very scary.”
The Khans, Bangladeshi immigrants who have been in the city for 25 years, have two children, a son, 19, and a daughter, 21.
“My daughter is worried,” Jahan Khan said.
Police said the suspect is Black and heavset, with a full beard.
He was wearing a dark-colored jacket with black pants, a hat and sunglasses with a tag on them.
The attack was the second dangerously close call in the city’s subway system in less than a week.
On Thursday, MTA train conductor Alton Scott, 59, poked his head out of his cab on the Far Rockaway-bound A train at the Rockaway Ave. station in Bedford-Stuyvesant to make sure it was safe for the train to depart.
A man said nothing as he slashed the MTA veteran’s neck at around 3:30 a.m., Scott later told the Daily News.
The victim needed 34 stitches and nine sutures to close the neck wound. Police are still searching for the attacker.
In September, Trevor Crawford, a 118-pound 74-year-old grandfather, was shoved to the tracks at the 68th St.-Hunter College station in Manhattan. He fell about a foot from the electrified third rail before a construction worked pulled him to safety.
The frail man suffered a broken pelvis and cracked ribs along with injuries to his spine and arm in the unprovoked attack.