The man wanted for the awful attack on an elderly woman on the subway in NYC is now in custody...

[Princess Turandot]

per Dermot Shea, the NYPD Chief of Detectives. According to his tweet from earlier today more details will follow:

Link to tweet

[Sherman A1]

1. Good

Happy that he has been apprehended.

[malaise]

2. Lock him up

Who attacks an elderly woman?

[CurtEastPoint]

3. of course fools sat and went OOOHHHHH and kept filming and didn't lift a finger.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nypd-seeks-tips-after-vicious-subway-attack-caught-on-video?ref=scroll

[Archae]

8. You are on a bus, see a thug (yes, a thug) beat up an old woman.

One thing that is going to be foremost on your mind is keeping away from that thug.

Because it could end up with you knifed, shot, wounded or killed.

So somebody filmed the thug and then called the cops.

Now said thug is in JAIL, where he belongs.

[Farmer-Rick]

9. I know that's what you are suppose to feel

But I'm 62 and I would have jumped him anyway. I just could Not help myself if I saw him beating on an old woman. It would just be instinct.

He didn't have a knife or anything. He would have used it if he did. He kicked her repeatedly, like she was a dog.

[safeinOhio]

10. I'm even older and agree 100%

Who wants to live forever

I’m that kind of world.

[Archae]

11. You don't know that for sure, he might have had a gun or knife, and just not used it.

I've been beaten by a thug who was high on PCP.

The terror I felt being beaten still haunts me, 35+ years later.

[Farmer-Rick]

13. Oh geez, I'm so sorry to hear that.

If I'd been there, I would have tried to help you. I've been beaten too. Many a time. Lost my front tooth and broke my nose that way. Usually it's NOT me who starts the fight. But I just can't stand by and watch the weak be abused by the strong. I guess one of these days it's going to really hurt, but in the mean time.....

No, he didn't have a weapon that was clear. But I noticed he waited until the end of ride to start kicking in her face. And he picked an old woman who was sitting by herself...what a coward. A coward like that would have used a weapon on her, if he had it. I would have jumped him. If I had seen it, I would have just reacted and not have thought it through.

[Archae]

15. Yeah, it's easy to say "I'll defnd someone," but in real life, it happens usually too fast.

The guy who beat the older woman has a rap sheet longer than I am, and should have been in jail.

As to the guy who beat me up, here he is:

https://whbl.com/news/articles/2015/jul/30/high-level-registered-sex-offender-will-offend-again/

Molests anyone he wants to, beats up people at random, is a hopeless alcoholic and doper, just a complete loser.

If he's not in jail again already, he will be soon. He can't stop offending.

So people on that bus did the right thing, and now the thug is in jail. Good.

[cstanleytech]

20. Doesn't look like they had an easy choice there.

Either grant the waiver and be able to hopefully monitor him or deny it and then have absolutely no way to really track him or at least that is if I understood the article correctly.

[Farmer-Rick]

31. I know, what you are saying is right but

Like I said, I wouldn't have thought it through...that's just me.

Yeah, you are right it is easy to say especially on some website. But I'll say it anyway because it's true.

[SCVDem]

12. Semper Fi !

Just scream that the police are here!!

[Honeycombe8]

22. If the train is moving, he'll know that's not true.

And then you'll be the focus of attention. Unless that's the goal.

I'm afraid I would have tried something, though.

[Ferrets are Cool]

18. I am the same age and would have done the same thing. There is no way I

could have sat there and watched this happen without acting.

[Farmer-Rick]

32. Yeah, there is a visceral reaction to stop him from abusing that poor woman.

And once the first person takes action, it gets others going too.

Seen it in crowds before. Everyone just watches as the abuse takes place then someone acts and it's like the crowd wakes up.

[Blue_true]

25. I agree with Archae.

Unless you were 100% sure that he was not armed, confronting him violently was not the best tact. I do think one of the people watching could have walked up to him and ask him to stop kicking the old lady. He may have attacked the second person, or he may have stopped the attack. Just going up throwing punches would be be a good idea unless there was certainty that one punch was going to knock him out cold.

[Chin music]

27. +1

Yeah, he'd be kicking granny through me. And that wouldn't last long.

[Honeycombe8]

21. Some people can't help reacting. Adrenalin & such. It's in their nature.

They can't help it. It's a reaction thing. I have it, to some extent.

[Honeycombe8]

23. Someone DID stop him verbally as he was leaving. It was a WOMAN.

As he was walking away, the video cuts off after a woman clearly says, "Excuse me" to him. He turns toward her and says something mean but continues walking. SHE GOT A CLEAR SHOT OF HIS FACE.

It was a woman who dared to stop him before he left, risking injury to herself.

Like I said, some people have that "I must do something" in their DNA.

I watched the video and saw that there was no one right there by the old woman,which was why he chose her, maybe. It was too fast for someone to jump up, because each time, it looked like he was leaving, but then he kicked her again. So it was too fast, really. IMO. But the woman stopped him.

They need to get him off the streets permanently. (He must have some serious Mommy issues.)

[flvegan]

28. LOL

Yeah, that. Welcome to being what's wrong with the world, B.

[ZZenith]

29. Touche!

[NastyRiffraff]

4. Good news

I hope they throw the book at him.

[suffragette]

5. K&R for the quick apprehension of this dangerous person.

[lpbk2713]

6. Identified as Marc Gomez, 36, of Yonkers.

Link: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/new-york-city-subway-attack-man-elderly-woman-bronx

He was charged with two counts of second-degree assault, one count of third-degree assault, and one count of harassment.

[Tipperary]

7. Scum.

I guess I missed the original story. Did he just attack her for the “fun” of it?

[smirkymonkey]

14. Good!

I hope they sentence the coward to the max allowable.

[Demovictory9]

16. previous mugshot

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[BigmanPigman]

17. That's a pretty high quality mug shot.

It is better than most Senior High yearbook photos I've seen. Was was he arrested for before? Kicking puppies?

[ret5hd]

26. MuGlamour Shots.

[ZZenith]

30. !!!

[Hekate]

19. I'm glad people with cell phones got photos of this thug. Pre-mugshots, as it were.

It may have all happened too fast to stop the lady from being injured, but they got a very clear shot of his face, and now the police have him.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. Good