Man bashes subway rider with metal pipe and fractures skull, police say
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A New York City man who was arrested Monday bashed a fellow subway rider with a metal pipe over the weekend, fracturing the straphanger's skull, police said.
Geovannie Nieves, 35, was on the southbound No. 2 train in Manhattan just before 11:30 p.m. Saturday when he got into a verbal dispute with a rider.
Nieves, wearing a blue shirt and baseball cap, is captured on video yelling and waving his arm at the 59-year-old commuter before they both stood up while the train was in motion. The suspect then took a metal object and swung it at the rider’s face.
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The attacker fled the train at the Chambers Street station.
The rider was taken to the hospital and was said to be in serious but stable condition. He suffered a fractured skull and broken eye socket.
Nieves, from Brooklyn, was arrested two days later and charged with felony assault with a weapon.