A Bronx man who went viral after a pair of wild videos showed him allegedly trying to abduct a woman on the subway before getting beat down by a group of vigilantes claims he was the unsung hero this week.
Sonny Alloway, 48, said he was actually trying to save the woman from being held hostage by another man while riding the 6 train in The Bronx just before 3 a.m. Sunday — but “the grown crackhead” started freaking out, according to a new video.
“Listen this is what happened. The chick was like, ‘Yo, help me. Help me… He’s holding me hostage,'” he explains in a widely circulated social media video.
“I was like, ‘Who this dude right here?” Alloway recalls. “I was like ‘Get off the train.’ She was like, “Nah, she’s gonna beat me up.'”
So Alloway said he came up with a plan for the Morrison Avenue-Soundview station.
“All right, so at Morrison, I’ll scoop you off,'” he said. “So then when I scooped her off, she started screaming, ‘Help! Help!’ And I’m like, ‘Why this b—h screaming, ‘Help?” So I sat there, you see on the video… So then I left.”
That’s when he was jumped by a group of vigilantes who apparently saw the video and served up some street justice, beating Alloway and holding him until cops came, according to the Bronx man and police.
Alloway said the guys on his block had approached him, asking, “Yo, why you trying to rape that chick?”
“That’s a grown crackhead wilding out and s—, ” he recalled responding. “So then they try to jump me or whatever.”
“So they took me to the precinct… they cleared my name and now I’m free,” he claimed, ending the clip saying, “Merry Christmas.”
A spokeswoman for the NYPD said Thursday that Alloway’s arrest hasn’t been voided and he still faces a charge of unlawful imprisonment.
The case against Alloway has since been put on hold pending further investigation since the victim has not come forward, a spokeswoman for the Bronx’s District Attorney’s Office said.
