Arrest in vicious subway hammer attack

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Police person made an apprehension pursuing a vicious hammer onslaught connected a Manhattan subway platform.

NYPD investigators arrested 41-year-old Jamar Newton of Brooklyn.

He has been charged with Assault and Reckless Endangerment.

Surveillance shows the attack, which took spot aboriginal Saturday nighttime connected the northbound N and R bid level astatine Union Square Station.

Police accidental the 44-year-old unfortunate was struck successful the backmost of the caput aft an argument, causing him to autumn onto the tracks.

He was hospitalized successful unchangeable condition.

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