CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A man was attacked, unprovoked, by a group of people on a Brooklyn subway platform last week, police said.
The incident occurred on June 2 when a 50-year-old man standing on the platform at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station when a group of people approached him around 9:45 a.m., according to the NYPD. The group then punched and kicked the victim in the head and body before running away, police said.
First responders transported the victim to a hospital in what authorities of serious but stable condition.
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