Cops are hunting for a group wanted in a gang assault on New Year’s Day that led to the death of a good Samaritan who was struck by a train in the Bronx.
The deadly incident unfolded around 2:40 a.m. inside the Fordham Road subway station when one of the suspects approached a 38-year-old man and “displayed a knife” before the group began “physically assaulting him,” the NYPD said.
The victim tumbled onto the tracks as a train approached — and that’s when a 25-year-old man jumped onto the roadbed to try to rescue him. The younger man was instead struck and killed by the oncoming train.
Police didn’t release the dead man’s name.
The assault victim’s mother, Basilia Paulino, was left heartbroken over the good Samaritan’s death.
“I’m crying for that man. I don’t know what to say. He went to help my son and look what happened. He should be in God’s glory, that man,” Paulino told The Post through tears on Monday.
Paulino said her son was hospitalized with a broken arm and is expected to undergo surgery on Friday.
The mother added that her son briefly recounted the attack to her.
“He told me they attacked him. It was a gang and they started hitting him and they threw him onto the tracks.”
But, Pauilson said, “he could hardly speak because he’s in a lot of pain.”
New photos from the station show about a dozen people who appear to be in their teens and early 20s who fled the station, according to police.