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A man was shot and killed after an argument in a Midtown subway station Saturday afternoon turned deadly, police and sources said.
The gunfire erupted inside the 7th Avenue station at 53rd Street at 12:21 p.m., the NYPD said.
First responders administered CPR on the platform before rushing the man to Bellevue Hospital in cardiac arrest, where he was pronounced dead, sources said.
He and the gunman had engaged in some type of dispute on the northbound platform, though the details are not yet clear.
It’s also not clear whether the pair knew one another.
An E train had pulled up to the platform and opened its doors just moments before the shooting occurred, with one witness telling The Post he heard two “pops” roughly eight seconds apart, sending straphangers into a frenzy.
“Everybody was running,” said Mauricio Marroquin, who was on his way home to Queens after working a morning shift as a breakfast attendant.
“I seen a gentleman laying right in front,” Marroquin said of the victim. “He was dressed in a blazer, looked like he was coming from work or something, bro. Going to work or coming from work. It was two shots, man. He only got hit with one, like, that’s weird. And they were eight seconds apart, man. That’s weird.”
Marroquin said several bystanders surrounded the victim, one of whom began chest compressions until EMS arrived and another who held the injured man’s hand.
“Another gentleman was just talking to him, like, ‘Hey, man, wake up, wake up, stay up, stay up, stay up,’” said Marroquin.
Police are searching for the suspect, who was last seen wearing a red tracksuit, black puffer vest and what appeared to be a black balaclava, security footage shows.
Felony assault in the city’s transit system is up 12% — to 525 from 470 — and misdemeanor assault is up 16% — to 1,304 from 1,120 — so far this year over the same period last year as of Oct. 13, according to the most recent NYPD data available.
Felony assault is up 18% from two years ago and 94% from seven years ago, according to the NYPD data, which doesn’t provide numbers for the older periods. More minor misdemeanor assaults are up 11% over two years ago and 25% over seven years ago, the data show.
Transit crime is up 2% and arrests in transit are down 5% so far this year to 22,847 from 23,977 at the same time last year, according to the data.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
