The Queens straphanger accused of fatally attacking a fellow rider for bumping into him on a subway platform was charged with manslaughter Tuesday and hauled off to court in handcuffs, police said.
Carlos Garcia, 50, is accused of getting into a scuffle with a 48-year-old victim during Monday’s evening rush hour at the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue 74th Street subway station after the victim bumped into him on the platform, causing the suspect’s cell phone to fall on the tracks.
When the victim refused to go down to the tracks to retrieve the fallen phone, Garcia got into a physical altercation with him as the pair screamed at each other in Spanish, witnesses and police sources said.
Garcia, dressed in grey pants, a camouflage shirt and a blue sweater, made no comments when he was walked out of the 115th precinct and thrown into the back of a police car.
Carlos Garcia, 50, is walked in handcuffs from the 115th precinct to a car to take him to court. Gabriella Bass
He’s expected to be arraigned on the charges at Queens Criminal Court later Tuesday.
Cop sources initially said Garcia then pushed the victim onto the tracks and into the path of an oncoming train, killing the man. But other police sources said Tuesday that the victim may have fallen onto the roadbed and into the train’s path amid the scuffle.
