NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A man who got pushed off a subway platform in Brooklyn is talking about his terrifying experience. The incident was the latest in several recent unprovoked subway shoves that have commuters on edge, CBS2’s Christina Fan reported Monday. MORE : Seen On Video: Another Subway Rider Pushed Onto Tracks At Brooklyn Station Ryan Schoenherr is the man seen on video getting shoved onto the Atlantic Avenue subway tracks by a complete stranger. Speaking with CBS2 exclusively a day later, he said he is relieved to have walked away unscathed after hearing similar attacks on other riders. “It happened all so fast, I think the fear sort of happened after. Looking at those videos and being like, oh, I could have gotten really hurt,” Schoenherr said. MORE FROM CBS NEW YORK: Long Island Appliance Store Owner’s Gamble Pays Off After Stocking Up On $1 Million Worth Of Inventory At Start Of Pandemic NYPD Officer Assaulted By Multiple People While Jogging In Queens Tri-State Area Officials Sound Alarms As Coronavirus Shutdowns Likely To Impact Holiday Season He was on the 4 train Sunday with his girlfriend headed uptown when he said a homeless man woke up and began screaming at him. Schoenherr said he got off, hoping to switch cars, but the man followed him, blocking him at every turn. MORE : Pushes, Punches, Slashings: With Violence Getting Out Of Control On NYC Subways, Guardian Angels Step Up To Patrol Schoenherr said he eventually decided to leave the station and that’s when the man pushed him. “I just hope that doesn’t happen to someone who is more elderly, or somebody who would have a harder time getting off those tracks,” Schoenherr said. In the past week there have been two other similar attacks. On Thursday, a homeless man shoved a woman into the path of an oncoming train . The day before, a man was shoved off the platform at Bryant Park. Mayor Bill de Blasio addressed the unsettling trend on Monday. “The NYPD is going to be increasing its presence in the subways. That will be very visible. We continue to expand our mental health efforts,” de Blasio said. Fan pressed the city for specifics, but was only told officers would be added to high-traffic subway stations. MORE : Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder After Grandmother Shoved Onto Subway Tracks Metropolitan Transportation Authority Interim President Sarah Feinberg issued the following statement: “We have got folks in this city who desperately need mental health care. The transit system is for people who are using it to travel. MTA and NYC Transit, our personnel are out there in the system, we are doing our best to make sure the commuters, New Yorkers, are safe,” Feinberg said. “We have a crisis in this city with mentally ill people who need help, and it absolutely needs to be addressed, and I’m desperate for this mayor or the next mayor to take it on because we’ve got a long way to go.” Schoenherr agrees. “I’m hoping the city can approach this issue with empathy and making sure it is treated in a humane way,” he said. Schoenherr said that would mean help instead of jail time for the man who shoved him. Early Tuesday morning, police arrested 33-year-old Michael Medlock in the case. He was charged with attempted assault, reckless endangerment and menacing.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Police have arrested a 31-year-old mother in the death of her 5-year-old son found dead in their Queens home more than a year ago. Phyllis Reinoso, 31, was arrested Thursday on multiple charges, including manslaughter and assault. Police said they found Michael Guzman, 5, unconscious inside the family’s Jamaica home in January 2017. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. Months later, the medical examiner ruled it a homicide from “acute phenobarbital intoxication.” Authorities said the boy fatally overdosed. “This case appears to be a case where the child suffered from epilepsy, was legally prescribed medication, but then it morphed into a case where there was a neglect of care,” said NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea. At the time of Guzman’s death, sources told CBS2 the city’s Administration for Children’s Services had launched 13 separate investigations into the family’s home, where five other children also lived. Eight of the cases had been substantiated for further investigation, two involving Guzman. On Thursday, CBS2’s Andrea Grymes took questions to ACS Commissioner David Hansell , who was appointed to the job shortly after the boy’s death. “Apparently, ACS had visited this home 13 times. How could a little boy die like this?” she asked. “Well, you know, this was one of the several tragic fatalities that happened shortly before I came the commissioner and while the law doesn’t allow me to talk about the details of this or any of those cases, what I can say is as soon as I became commissioner, I realized that we had to do a top-to-bottom management review of our agency,” he replied. Hansell said the review led to several reforms , like adding hundreds more child protective specialists and flagging potential high-risk cases of abuse for more ACS scrutiny. Reinoso is being held on $1 million bail. Police said she had been living on Staten Island but fled out of state. “About two weeks ago, we located her, apprehended her in Alabama. And she’s back in New York City as (of) yesterday to face charges for manslaughter,” said Shea.
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