Overview

• Officers responded around 3 p.m. Tuesday to the Downtown Brooklyn station and found an adult man unconscious with severe head trauma; he was later pronounced dead at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
• Police say surveillance video shows the attacker punching, kicking, and stomping the victim’s head up to 15 times, causing a fractured skull, before fleeing on a Bronx-bound No. 2 train.
• NYPD officials said transit cops spotted the suspect near Times Square at about 10 p.m. after departmentwide photo alerts were pushed through the domain awareness system.
• The victim has not been publicly identified pending family notification, and investigators have not determined a motive; ABC7 reported the suspect has 17 prior arrests, including an assault earlier this year.
• Outlets cite different tallies for subway homicides this year, reflecting a discrepancy in counts, while police say the homicide investigation remains active and encourage tips to Crime Stoppers.