The man suspected of randomly shoving a woman into the side of a moving subway train in a terrifying attack over the weekend was arrested Tuesday morning, police said.
Kamal Semrade, 39, was charged with attempted murder and assault in the chilling May 21 assault that left 35-year-old straphanger Emine Ozsoy in desperate need of spinal surgery, cops said.
He’s accused of pushing the victim’s head against a departing subway car at the Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street station on the Upper East Side around 6 a.m. Sunday.
“She didn’t even see it coming,” Nancy Marrero, a Long Island City postal worker who witnessed the shocking incident, told The Post Monday.
“With open palms he just mushed her head — not her body — into the train. She just tumbled, just kept spinning because the train kept hitting her.”
The victim kept asking, “Am I going to die?” as she lay injured at the station — her face gashed to the bone, Marrero recalled.
“You could see the white inside, that’s how bad it was,” the postal worker said of the resulting gash that laced its way down the woman’s bloody face. “She said, ‘I don’t feel my arms. I feel like they’re broken.’
“She just kept asking me, ‘Am I going to die?’”
Authorities brought Ozsoy to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where doctors diagnosed her with a spinal fracture and said she would need surgery.