By Ben Fractenberg DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — One man has been arrested and another is in the hospital after an early morning shooting at a Midtown subway shooting on Sunday.
Police responded to a 911 call of a man shot at the 53rd street and Seventh Avenue subway station at 4 a.m. Sunday morning. Officers arrived to find Zahir Watts, 21, shot once in the torso, police said.
Police chased down a man they saw running West on 53rd Street toward Eighth Avenue after responding to the radio call.
Richard Mwazi, 24, allegedly had a 40-caliber handgun in his possession when he was arrested by police, according to a police report.
Watts, who hails from Brooklyn, was heading downtown on the D train at 4 a.m. when Mwazi allegedly "showed him that he had a weapon and told him, 'Don't make this hard,'" Watts' stepfather, Bobby Richardson, told the Daily News.
Watt’s reportedly fought back, struggling with the alleged mugger on the train and then at the 53rd street subway station. Mwazi allegedly tried to snatch Watt's religious medallion, the News reported.
Watts was taken to Cornell Hospital on East 68th Street, where he is in stable condition with a "bullet lodged in tissue near his spine," the paper reported.
Mwazi faces several charges, including attempted murder, assault, resisting arrest and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
