'I just told him, give me your arm. He gave me his arm. I picked him up,' MTA hero Angel Oquendo said.
MTA employee Angel Oquendo is being honored after saving a man who was pushed onto the subway tracks in front of an oncoming train.An MTA hero was honored Thursday night after jumping into action to save a man who was pushed onto subway tracks in Brooklyn seconds before a trained pulled in.
It started as a fight on the platform. It's not quite clear what it was about but the suspect shoved the victim onto the tracks as Angel Oquendo was doing the job he's done for transit for 16 years. He was cleaning a piece of glass on the platform when he watched the argument turn into a shove. "I looked at the gentleman. He was in shock that he saw the train coming as well," Oquendo said. "So, I just told him, give me your arm. He gave me his arm. I picked him up. I asked him if he was hurting in any kind of way. He told me no. No scratches, he didn't want to fill out a report. So, I went about my business as a regular day after that."
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