Maniac senselessly shoves woman, 62, onto NYC subway tracks after demanding a lighter: cops

A maniac senselessly shoved a 62-year-old woman onto Brooklyn subway tracks this week because she ignored his request for a lighter — before quick-acting bystanders pulled her back to safety, cops and sources said.

The suspected shover, Shadrach Ford, 30, of Uniondale, Long Island, was nabbed Friday on a laundry list of charges including attempted murder in connection to the early Thursday attack at the Jefferson Street station in Bushwick, police said.

The victim was standing on the L train platform just before 6 a.m. when the stranger approached her, cops said.

The man asked the woman for a lighter – but when she ignored him, he punched her in the face and pushed her onto the roadbed, police sources said.

Good Samaritans helped her back up onto the platform and she was not struck by a train, cops said.

The woman, who suffered injuries to her left ankle and right elbow, was taken to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, where she was listed in stable condition, police said.

Less than 12 hours after the senseless attack, cops released a video of the suspect – described as around 5-foot-11, last seen wearing a blue du-rag, a gray shirt, gray pants, and white and pink sneakers.

Eagle-eyed cops at the Broadway Junction station — six stops away — recognized Ford from a wanted flyer and apprehended him, police sources said.

Ford was also charged with attempted criminally negligent homicide, assault, reckless endangerment, harassment and criminal trespass, authorities said.

He has no prior arrests in the Big Apple, cops said.

The violence on the rails came the same day that a mentally ill woman who randomly shoved a helpless commuter into a moving subway car in Times Square back in 2021 was sentenced to more than a decade behind bars.

Anthonia Egegbara, 32, was slapped with 12 years in prison by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Brendan Lantry for the Oct. 4, 2021 assault that left 42-year-old New Jersey woman Lenny Javier with several injuries, including a broken arm that required surgery.

Egegbara, who suffers from schizophrenia, had been out without bail for three months at the time for a separate assault on another straphanger.