The man accused of randomly shoving a straphanger onto a Manhattan subway track just as a train pulled into the station on New Year's Eve has been charged with murder, police said.
Disturbing surveillance video caught the unprovoked assault and shows two men hopping the turnstile seconds before Hawkins allegedly struck, ramming his victim into the path of the train.
Miraculously, the man appeared to fall in a gap between the tracks. The train passed over him, leaving him alive, though seriously wounded.
Hawkins has one prior arrest for aggravated assault dating back to October. He was questioned at Transit District 1 before being escorted out of the station house by police in cuffs.
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