While most people were out celebrating the New Year, a group of teens in the Bronx, New York, got into a fight that left one person hurt and another dead.
At about 2:40 a.m., a 38-year-old man was waiting on the platform. According to the New York Post, he was drunk and “making a disturbance” by blowing a “New Year’s horn.”
The group of teens then walked up to the 38-year-old man, pulled out a knife, and started beating him, according to the article, which quotes police. At some point, the man was thrown onto the subway tracks.
He broke his arm, but it’s not clear if he fell or was pushed. Then a train came near.
Then, a good Samaritan ran onto the tracks to help the hurt man, who was not named. Local man Roland Hueston was then hit by a train and killed.
People called the 36-year-old a hero because he died trying to help the victim who wasn’t hit by the train.
After what happened, the gang ran away, but security cameras in the subway caught them.
The person who was attacked first and lived to tell about it shows his many injuries from the attack.
The person was taken to the hospital, where they were treated and then sent home a short time later.
Basilia Paulino, the mother of the victim who lived, said that when she heard what had happened, it broke her heart.
“He told me they attacked him,” Paulino told the New York Post. “It was a gang, and they started hitting him, and they threw him onto the tracks.”
“He could hardly speak because he’s in a lot of pain,” she continued.
She was also very grateful to Hueston for being so brave.
“I’m crying for that man,” Paulino said. “I don’t know what to say. He went to help my son and look what happened. He should be in God’s glory, that man.”
Later in January, a 16-year-old boy and two 17-year-old boys were arrested and charged with murder, robbery, gang assault, and assault in connection with the attack.
Then, on Friday, April 1, 19-year-old Noel Rosado was arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter, robbery, gang assault, and assault, according to police documents obtained by CNN.