Good Samaritan’s face slashed on subway after intervening in fight
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June 17, 2023 7:53am
Gideon Moncrieffe said he will require plastic surgery after Lewis allegedly slashed his face on the subway last month. gofundme.com MORE ON:
An eight-inch long gash runs from the top of his head to the bottom of his left cheek, the work of an who viciously attacked him after he tried to defuse a violent altercation last month on a Brooklyn train — an intervention fueled by the chokehold death of 10 days earlier.
I didn’t want someone else to get killed or hurt.”
The mayhem unfolded May 10 on the southbound C train in Brooklyn where Moncrieffe, 44, the global head of event production at TikTok, sat on his way back home to Stuyvesant Heights after grabbing dinner with a friend and noticed Sean Lewis, 33, squabbling with an older drunk man, who fell to the floor during the spat, although Moncrieffe said he didn’t know if the man was pushed or toppled over when the train lurched.
Moncrieffe said he asked whether Lewis was OK, hoping to prevent the situation from escalating, but Lewis responded by shoving him.
“I said look, somebody was killed on the train two weeks ago, they were choked out because someone proceeded to be aggressive,” Moncrieffe said, referring to ex-con Neely, who witnesses said was menacing other straphangers before ex-Marine Daniel Penny placed him in a fatal chokehold aboard an F train in Manhattan.
Moncrieffe said the older man left the train at some point while he spoke to Lewis.
“I said I don’t know you, but I love and respect you,” Moncrieffe said he told Lewis.
“You’re a young black man. You look like me. I just want to make sure you get home safe.”
But Lewis offered a bone-chilling response, according to Moncrieffe.
“He then said to me, ‘Yeah you don’t know me, but I’m going to make sure you remember me,'” Moncrieffe said.
With that, Moncrieffe retreated to the further end of the car with his back to the door — then felt a tap on his shoulder when the train doors opened behind him at the Fulton Street station.
Moncrieffe turned around to find Lewis standing there.
“He says ‘Thank you,’… and as he says ‘Thank you’ he slashes me down my face,” Moncrieffe said.
Moncrieffe could no longer see out of his left eye as the blood poured from his face, never saw the weapon.
He began screaming at passengers to stay on the train, fearing that Lewis would attack someone else on the platform.
By
June 17, 2023 7:53am
Gideon Moncrieffe said he will require plastic surgery after Lewis allegedly slashed his face on the subway last month. gofundme.com MORE ON:An eight-inch long gash runs from the top of his head to the bottom of his left cheek, the work of an who viciously attacked him after he tried to defuse a violent altercation last month on a Brooklyn train — an intervention fueled by the chokehold death of 10 days earlier.
I didn’t want someone else to get killed or hurt.”
The mayhem unfolded May 10 on the southbound C train in Brooklyn where Moncrieffe, 44, the global head of event production at TikTok, sat on his way back home to Stuyvesant Heights after grabbing dinner with a friend and noticed Sean Lewis, 33, squabbling with an older drunk man, who fell to the floor during the spat, although Moncrieffe said he didn’t know if the man was pushed or toppled over when the train lurched.
Moncrieffe said he asked whether Lewis was OK, hoping to prevent the situation from escalating, but Lewis responded by shoving him.“I said look, somebody was killed on the train two weeks ago, they were choked out because someone proceeded to be aggressive,” Moncrieffe said, referring to ex-con Neely, who witnesses said was menacing other straphangers before ex-Marine Daniel Penny placed him in a fatal chokehold aboard an F train in Manhattan.
Moncrieffe said the older man left the train at some point while he spoke to Lewis.
“I said I don’t know you, but I love and respect you,” Moncrieffe said he told Lewis.
“You’re a young black man. You look like me. I just want to make sure you get home safe.”
But Lewis offered a bone-chilling response, according to Moncrieffe.
“He then said to me, ‘Yeah you don’t know me, but I’m going to make sure you remember me,'” Moncrieffe said.
With that, Moncrieffe retreated to the further end of the car with his back to the door — then felt a tap on his shoulder when the train doors opened behind him at the Fulton Street station.
Moncrieffe turned around to find Lewis standing there.
“He says ‘Thank you,’… and as he says ‘Thank you’ he slashes me down my face,” Moncrieffe said.
Moncrieffe could no longer see out of his left eye as the blood poured from his face, never saw the weapon.
He began screaming at passengers to stay on the train, fearing that Lewis would attack someone else on the platform.
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