A brutal with almost two dozen earlier arrests Bashed A teenager with a hammer aboard a Bronx train Monday – all because the victim would not give up his chair for a woman, the police said.
The 19-year-old victim told the police that he was driving on a northern D-train and around 5 pm the 167th Street station was approaching when another rider-water identified as Tommy Sprauve, 26-on-his phone started tapping and asked him for Such a woman could sit on, the authorities said.
The teenager ignored the bullying – until Sprauve suddenly hit him once in the face with a hammer, causing a cut and swelling on his left eye, the police said.
While the victim got out of the train, officers who were on board the train saw, but in another car bleed him out of the forehead, the authorities and sources said.
The teenager pointed to the alleged attacker, who was wearing a hammer, the police said.
Sprauve, from the Bronx, was taken into custody and accused of abuse with the intention of causing serious physical injury, the authorities said. His preliminary guide was being treated on Tuesday evening.
In the meantime, the victim was taken to BronxCare Health System, where he was treated for his serious cut but mentioned in a stable state, the police said.
SPRAUVE has 20 earlier busts on its rap leaf – the most recent for burglary in a Bronx homeless shelter less than two weeks ago, Cops said.
In that case, he is accused of entering the building on Honeywell Avenue near East 179th Street in West Farms, where he was seen on the camera that entered the building and entered the basement, where he broke the door and the The authorities said the end of a storage space.
He was found in the room by a guard, Cops said.
SPRAUVE was released without bail during his pre -guidance in the Bronx Criminal Court, according to data.
In October he was caught for burglary and separately accused of a arson that took place in July, according to the police.
Monday’s violence came when the NYPD announced that 700 more agents would patrol the rails this week.
It also came after several people had been cut, pushed or beaten in the metro system last week.
