Police launched a photograph of a fourth suspect within the wild subway beatdown of Fox Information meteorologist Adam Klotz — who revealed in a brand new interview how members of the violent crew egged one another on to “put him to sleep.”
The surveillance picture, launched by the NYPD Monday evening, reveals a young-looking man in a black jacket and light-weight sweater. The suspect continues to be on the unfastened and believed to be related to the brutal early Saturday assault on Klotz, 37, on a southbound No. 1 practice close to 18th Avenue.
Three of the suspects — two 15-year-olds and a 17-year-old — have been arrested quickly after the assault after which launched, cops mentioned.
“This entire group comes and gang-rushes me, jumps on me and simply begins beating me and kicking me,” Klotz recalled in a Monday evening interview with Fox Information host Tucker Carlson. “I hear, ‘Put him to sleep, put him to sleep, put him to sleep, put him to sleep.’ They needed to knock me out.
“And my objective at that time — it’s similar to, cowl my head, as a result of when you’re unconscious, who is aware of what’s going to occur?” added the weatherman, whose face was nonetheless bruised from the assault. “And I used to be in a position to keep away from that, however I received kicked up and down the aspect, form of stomped on. They received their licks in for certain.”
Klotz mentioned the mayhem started as he headed house from watching the Giants recreation at a bar with associates.
He felt compelled to intervene, he mentioned, when he witnessed the crew setting a senior’s hair on hearth.
“A gaggle of I’d say like seven teenagers, one began to gentle up a joint, and with the lighter nonetheless in his hand, simply put a stay lighter in an aged man’s hair and it blew up like a matchbook,” Klotz mentioned. “His total head was on hearth. And the man’s knocking out his [hair].”
“I used to be simply sitting proper there watching it and how will you not [intervene]?” Klotz recalled. “[I said], ‘Whoa, guys, you possibly can’t try this.’ After which they simply didn’t wish to be informed what they may or couldn’t do. So then all of a sudden the main target was on me.”
The suspects requested him if he had an issue earlier than Klotz repeated, “You’ll be able to’t try this,” he mentioned.
One in every of them sneered, “Attempt to cease me,” in response to the weatherman.
“So I caught a left, a fairly good left [that] form of put my head again into the wall,” Klotz mentioned.
Klotz mentioned he moved to a different automotive — pondering the worst was over — however the identical group discovered him and attacked him once more a short while later.
The three younger thugs who’ve already been launched with “juvenile studies” might solely face costs if Klotz information a criticism with town Division of Probation, which might then resolve if it might refer the case to the Legislation Division, officers mentioned Sunday.
The juvenile studies they got are handed to children who allegedly commit an act that may represent an offense if perpetrated by an grownup.
Nonetheless, police mentioned Monday they’re interviewing the aged man who was allegedly accosted by the kids first — and will nonetheless lodge costs towards the rowdy crew.
“The choice was to get all the knowledge earlier than we transfer ahead,” NYPD Deputy Chief Kevin Maloney informed The Submit. “The choice was made to launch them to their dad and mom and make efforts to determine the opposite sufferer, which we did.”
“We’re speaking to him now to see if there are acceptable costs,” Maloney mentioned. “They could possibly be issued look tickets to look in household courtroom.”
Requested on “Fox & Mates” earlier Monday if he would pursue costs, Klotz was noncommittal.
“I would like somebody to be held accountable, however actually what I would like is a few type of change. I don’t need this to occur to any individual else, and I don’t assume essentially simply these youngsters getting in bother,” he mentioned. “Like, the place’s the structural issues?”
“I would like [Mayor] Eric Adams to do one thing extra long-term that this gained’t occur to any individual else, greater than me simply getting some type of revenge within the brief time period,” he mentioned.
