A stranger allegedly pushed a 74-year-old man onto the Bronx train tracks in an unprovoked attack. He then bizarrely blurted out, “I didn’t do it,” before being arrested, police sources said.
Deviante Collins, 28, of Brooklyn, allegedly pushed the senior onto tracks Nos. 2 and 5 southbound at the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station around 7:15 a.m. Sunday, authorities said.
The elderly victim was standing with his wife before he was attacked, and Collins did not exchange words with him before the push, officers and sources said.
After the unprovoked attack, Collins strangely threw his hands in the air and declared, “I didn’t do it,” sources said.
Good Samaritans quickly helped the straphanger back onto the platform and the sources say he was not hit by a train.
The victim was taken to Lincoln Medical Center with minor leg wounds, police said.
Collins — who has not previously been arrested in the city — was arrested at the scene and charged with second-degree assault, as well as reckless endangerment and harassment, both in the first degree, police said.
The attack came a week after a crazed woman pushed Steven Morales, 43, at the Kosciuszko Street J train station in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 9 a.m., according to police and the victim.
The suspect ran off after the assault and has not yet been caught.
