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A 22-year-old Brooklyn woman who was randomly punched onto subway tracks last month claims she was able to scramble to safety thanks to her experience climbing up on the stage at Gwen Stefani concerts.
“It’s because Gwen’s called me on stage so many times,” the anonymous woman told Fox 5 News. “That’s why my body knew what to do.”
The woman said she was returning home from work and had just gotten off the train in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn when a man she didn’t know punched her and pushed her onto the subway tracks.
“Being in the tracks, that’s what gives me nightmares,” she told the outlet. “That was the most scary thing of my life.
“You never think you’re gonna be in a moment when you’re like, ‘I need to live,’ that’s all I could think about,” the woman added.
Looking at the platform above her at the time, the woman said, she figured it was about the same height as the stage at a recent Las Vegas show where the singer had her helped up onstage.
She said she was able to climb back on to the platform and sprint out of the station.
It wasn’t until late, she said, that she realized the extent of her injuries.
“I looked like a monster,” she said. “Like, my face was all swollen, I didn’t even know I had a black eye till I looked in the mirror.”
Police say the attack is still under investigation.
The woman’s story comes amid a spate of subway shovings.
A 62-year-old man was left in stable condition after he was randomly punched and knocked to the tracks Sunday night in The Bronx. Police have a 21-year-old suspect in custody.
On Friday, another subway shover charged at a 32-year-old man at a Brooklyn station, knocking him onto the tracks when no train was coming.
Last week, Miguel Ramirez, 35, allegedly pushed a 26-year-old man onto the tracks of the No. 6 train in The Bronx.
Days earlier, a 48-year-old man was killed by a train after he fell onto the tracks during a scuffle with another man in Queens.
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