A routine train ride for Ferdianto Suwandi quickly turned frightening after he was randomly attacked while leaving the subway station.
“I was just walking down the stairs looking at my phone and as soon as I got up, I got a random punch,” Suwandi said.
The 29-year-old sushi chef says he blacked out for about a minute.
“When I woke up, so many things going on. There was a lot of people around me. The police, the ambulance, just keep asking me questions like ‘what happened, what happened? What’s going on?’ and it’s crazy,” he said.
Suwandi was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital.
“He hit me in my lips. The stitch is still here. It’s crazy,” he adds.
Suwandi also had a swollen face and a sore jaw. He was riding the 7 train, heading home from work in Manhattan to Woodside, Queens. He had just gotten out of the 61st Street Woodside Station when he was slugged.
Police are piecing together clues from witnesses, only describing the suspect as a man, running away in a pink jacket and black jeans.