NYC teen shoved onto subway tracks was heading to get her hair done for prom - and still made it

[Alvin Bragg]

Attempted murder! Put the black slut in jail forever.

A New York City high schooler who was shoved onto Queens subway tracks by
a homeless woman was heading to get her hair done for the prom when she
was pushed — but said Tuesday even the terrifying sudden attack wasn’t
going to make her miss the big dance.

Sarah Arias, 18, was shoved off the platform at the 75th Street–Elderts
Lane J/Z station in Woodhaven Monday around 10:30 a.m. by a woman who had
been arguing with a man at the above-ground station.

“It didn’t feel real. I was flying through the air,” Arias told The Post
from her Brooklyn home. “It just felt fake.”

The senior at Cypress Hills Collegiate Preparatory School had been
hurrying to get her hair done the morning of the prom when she encountered
the alleged attacker, 26-year-old Shemecca Wise.

The man Wise had been arguing with allegedly threatened Arias, the
teenager said. When the argument ended, Arias said she tried to move past
Wise — who pushed her just as the train was pulling into the station.

“I could see the train, it was about 150 yards away,” Arias recalled.

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Sarah Arias, 18, was getting ready for prom night when she was shoved on
the subway tracks and suffered a cut on her left knee.
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Good Samaritans helped the teen climb back onto the platform before the
train arrived.

“I have scrapes and bruises on my knees… I was so scared I was crying
hysterically,” she said.

Despite the life-threatening event, Arias admitted that the only thing on
her mind that day was the prom –and whether she would be able to attend in
spite of the investigation and her injured knee.

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Police arrested Shemecca Wise, 26, at a homeless shelter after the teen
identified her as the attacker.
“I just kept telling my mom I have to go to prom,” the plucky teen said.
“I’m not missing prom. How can you miss prom?”

Cops met Arias in Cypress Hill after she called 911 and took her two
blocks from her school to a homeless shelter, where police had arrested
Wise.

The teen said she was asked to identify Wise, who she described as looking
“like a normal person” before the sudden shove.

“She didn’t look homeless or crazy or anything. She looked non-
threatening,” Arias said.

Wise, who was charged with reckless endangerment and assault, was awaiting
arraignment in Queens Criminal Court Tuesday.

Still, Arias noted that the orange juice she was drinking fell through the
tracks and onto the street below after she was shoved, saying it was
miraculous she didn’t fall through as well.

Foregoing a hospital visit for a trip to the beauty parlor, the teen said
she was able to attend the prom with fellow students being none the wiser
as to what had happened to her hours before — as her dress distracted from
her bandaged knee.

While the incident didn’t ruin her big night, Arias said it did leave her
afraid of riding the subways again.

“I think I’m just going to take the bus from now on,” she said. “If I do
have to take the train, I’m just going to go up the stairs and stand with
my back to the wall like right there at the top of the stairs.”

Arias’ mother, Jeanette Jimenez, 47, called on the city to do more about
the homelessness problem in the subways.

“The mentally ill are walking around amongst us and they are not medicated
properly and they’re just crazy,” Jimenez said. “If they’re going to be
out they need their medication and they need to be monitored properly.
This doesn’t work.”

The attack on her daughter came more than a year after Mayor Eric Adams
launched his subway safety initiative to crack down on crime and vagrancy
on public transit.

“You’re hearing about these things on the news and you see that they’re
happening more and more often,” she said, “but you never think that you
are going to be the one or one of your family members are going to be the
ones who suffer — but soon enough they are.”

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[Alvin Bragg]

This is attempted murder.

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A homeless woman shoved a teenager from behind onto Queens subway tracks
in a random attack Monday morning, police and law enforcement sources
said.

The 18-year-old victim was able to climb back onto the platform with the
help of other passengers before a train arrived at the 75th Street-Elderts
Lane station in Woodhaven around 10:30 a.m., according to the NYPD.

She suffered only a cut to her leg and was treated at the scene, cops
said.

Following the unprovoked attack, the suspect, identified as Shemecca Wise,
26, fled from the station on foot, police said.

She was later arrested at a nearby homeless shelter where she lives,
police and sources said.

Wise was charged with reckless endangerment and assault, the NYPD said.

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