By Jim Scott
DNAinfo Senior Editor
MANHATTAN — A woman who was hospitalized after an attack by a man on a subway was reunited Monday with the good Samaritan who helped her, according to a published report.
Sabrina Scott was waiting for an F train on a subway platform on East Broadway in Chinatown on Friday night when she was confronted by a seemingly deranged man.
"Then he said, 'are you scared of me, are you scared of me?' And I tried to get away from him," Scott told MyFoxNY.com. "And then he started following me, so I went to another guy on the platform to try to help me."
The good Samaritan, identified as Derrick Oakes, intervened and got into a scuffle with the attacker, a police source told MyFoxNY.com. Scott fell onto the tracks and was knock unconscious during the struggle. Oakes rescued her by picking her up off the tracks, Scott said.
"It means a lot to me, because he saved my life," Scott told MyFoxNY.com. "It means a lot."
Oakes came forward after seeing an TV interview with Scott on Fox 5 News and visited her in Bellevue.
Scott, who has an 11-year-old son, was treated at Bellevue for a concussion, as well as head, neck and leg injures and a dislocated thumb, the TV station's website reported.
Police are still searching for the attacker who is described as a bald man in his 40s who is about 5-foot-6 inches tall.
