MTA worker attacked at Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues station in Bushwick
Footage shows the woman slipping under the turnstile as she flees the scene.
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Police have released new images of a woman accused of striking an MTA worker with the handle of her umbrella at the Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues station in Bushwick, sending her to the hospital Sunday night.
News 12 spoke with the victim of the attack, Marva Simms Jones, who says she now suffers from headaches and cannot stand without getting disoriented following the attack.
She says she was cleaning trash on the lower mezzanine level when she heard a woman cursing and screaming - before the woman rushed at her in a random attack and hit her over the head.
She says the attacker chased her and then ran to her supervisor and threatened to attack him. She says the woman then ran off and they called the police.
"She will not be returning to the station, she does not feel safe here and this never should have happened," said TWU Local 100 President Robert Kelly.
Kelly tells News 12 he believes that the heavy police and National Guard presence at the station should be spread across its multiple levels, and not just on the M and L train platforms to help protect MTA workers.
"The National Guard was not positioned where they needed to be as far as I'm concerned no one was down there my member was there by herself," he said.
Anyone with information about the woman who police released images of is asked to contact Crime Stoppers.
