BRONX MAN SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON FOR BEATING OF MTA EMPLOYEE ON HIS WAY TO WORK

 

Defendant Punched Station Agent in the Face, Broke His Jaw and Nose

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree Assault in the vicious beating of a Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee in a Bronx subway station. 

District Attorney Clark said, “Without provocation, the defendant punched and kicked a 75-year-old MTA employee who was in uniform on his way to work. We will not stand for assaults on transit workers, the backbone of our subway system.” 

District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Anthony Williams, 31, of Bronx Boulevard, the Bronx, was sentenced today to five years in prison and five years post release supervision for second-degree Assault by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio. He pleaded guilty on March 20, 2025 to that charge, as well as to Attempted Assault in the second degree for punching a Correction Officer in the face while he was incarcerated at Rikers Island on January 24, 2023. Williams was sentenced today to 1 ½ to 3 years in that case, to run concurrently.

According to the investigation, on September 12, 2023 at 9:15 p.m. Baboo Singh, 75, a station agent with the MTA, was in uniform, on his way to start his shift. While standing on the southbound platform of the Nereid Avenue subway station, Singh was approached by Williams who, without warning, punched him in the right eye, causing Singh to fall to the ground. Then the defendant punched and kicked Singh multiple times in the head and body. The victim suffered a fractured nose and jawbone.

District Attorney Clark thanked Trial Preparation Assistant Tamara Hall, of the Rikers Island Prosecution Bureau for her assistance in the case. District Attorney Clark thanked NYC Department of Correction Investigator Daniel Monaco, NYPD Detective Steven Kendricks of the 49th Precinct Squad, and Keisha Stewart, Special Officer with the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, for their assistance in the case.