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Guyanese Santa lookalike questioned after elderly man falls onto subway tracks
US (NY Post) -A drunken Guyanese man who distinctly resembles Santa Claus was being grilled by investigators Saturday after he may have pushed an elderly man onto the tracks in a Harlem subway station, putting him in a coma with a fractured skull, police sources said.
A Guyanese man is being question by US police after an elderly was reportedly pushed unto a subway track.
The 72-year-old victim was standing with his wife on the northbound platform of the A and C line at W. 145 St. and St. Nicholas Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Friday, when the wasted man “with a full head of white hair and a white beard” approached and the victim tumbled to the track bed, one law enforcement source said.
Good Samaritans jumped onto the tracks and lifted the man to safety before emergency responders arrived, cops said.
Officers who were doing bag checks in the station quickly took the suspect into custody, sources said.
The victim’s wife initially told police, “push, push, push,” and fingered the Claus-lookalike as the culprit, the source said.
Later on, at the 30th Precinct stationhouse, the wife changed her tune and told detectives through a Mandarin interpreter that she saw the suspect standing in the same spot as her husband with his arms outstretched, the source said.
The alleged perpetrator told investigators that he thought he was in the 59th Street Station at Lexington Avenue and was rushing to change trains, a source said. He said he waded through the crowded platform until he came upon the victim and said, “Excuse me,” the source said. He said the victim then fell to the tracks, but was not pushed, according to the source.
The NYPD is consulting with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on possible criminal charges.
The victim, who suffered a fractured skull and broken collar bone, was rushed to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he slipped into a coma, sources said.
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