A good Samaritan trying to thwart a subway crime became a victim himself — when the wheelchair-bound passenger he was trying to help in Manhattan whacked him in the head with a cane, police said.
The NYPD released surveillance video Tuesday showing the disabled suspect from the June 17 attack on a southbound Q train at the Prince Street subway station in Lower Manhattan.
A 22-year-old commuter spotted a man in a wheelchair sleeping with his phone in his hand around 1 a.m. and woke him up “in order to prevent him from being a victim of a crime,” police said.
But the would-be crime victim “pulled out a cane and struck the victim in the neck and head, causing a minor laceration.”
The cane-wielding goon then fled in his motorized wheelchair.
The bludgeoned subway rider was taken to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in stable condition.
A brief surveillance video released by the police Monday shows the suspect wearing a checkered shirt sitting in his wheelchair on the Prince Street subway platform.
