Stranger Breaks Woman's Spine in Subway Shove: CopsĪccording to a statement from her husband, Ferdi Ozsoy, Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy is a Turkish-born artist who lived and worked in Istanbul before moving to New York City in 2017. She stayed with Ozsoy until first responders arrived.Ī GoFundMe page to help raise funds for her staggering medical bills, which the organizers say already top six digits, raised tens of thousands of dollars in just a few days, thanks to hundreds of separate donations. She was so badly bloodied that the woman's Face ID feature on her phone didn't recognize her, Marrero said. Marrero comforted Ozsoy, who she says kept asking if she was going to die - as her forehead was 'split from the front all the way to the back,' the good Samaritan said. 'When she landed, because she tumbled, she landed on her stomach with her hand like this and this arm twisted, and she said, 'I have no feeling to my arm.'' 'Why would you do that to her? I go up to her and I kneel down and I was like, 'Are you OK? Are you OK?'' Marrero asked, as Ozsoy was bleeding and not moving. The man took off, Marrero screamed and ran to try to do what she could for the disoriented victim. So when he shoved her into it, so her head hit and her body like tumbling in a circle and she just dropped onto the platform.'

'He just took both hands, not at her body, aimed specifically at her head like he wanted the head to hit. 'I just see him walk up beside her to her left side and with palms open just shove her head onto the train as it moved: she recounted. Semrade had no prior criminal record known to the Manhattan district attorney's office before the ordeal that has become a common fear among New Yorkers. While the new charges remain sealed until he's arraigned, he already faces attempted murder and assault charges for the seemingly random attack on 35-year-old Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy at the Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street stop on the Upper East Side on Sunday.Įarlier in the week, prosecutors revealed chilling details as they outlined their attempted murder case against the 39-year-old Queens man. Kamal Semrade was back in court Friday after he was indicted by a grand jury. The man accused of violently shoving a woman into a moving subway train at a Manhattan station is facing new charges for the the incident that left a woman paralyzed.

According to her husband, the Turkish-born woman is an 'award-winning artist' who lived and worked in Istanbul before the couple moved to NYC in 2017.

Emine Yilmaz Oszoy remains hospitalized in critical condition she's currently paralyzed from the neck down, prosecutors say, and it was not yet known if she would ever walk again.A 39-year-old Queens man with no known record, according to the Manhattan DA's office, is accused of attempted murder in the random shove of a 35-year-old into a Lexington Avenue subway train.

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