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Subway Shover Shouts 'This is What You Get for F---ing With Me,' DA Says

By Aidan Gardiner | December 6, 2016 11:08am

MANHATTAN — A man shouted "This is what you get for f---ing with me" after he shoved another man onto the tracks of a 14th Street subway station, breaking his neck, prosecutors said.

Ronald Wingate, 50, shoved the 43-year-old straphanger onto the northbound A train tracks in the station near Eighth Avenue about 3:15 a.m. Sunday, according to police and prosecutors.

Wingate shouted as he loomed over the fallen man who lay unresponsive with a broken vertebrae in his neck, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Wingate was arrested and charged with assault and reckless endangerment, police said. He's being held on $100,000 bail and is due back in court on Friday, court records show.

The victim was treated at an area hospital, prosecutors said.

Wingate is from Texas but police said he's registered to an address at 390 Ninth Ave., the James A. Farley Post Office, which is commonly used as a mailing address for homeless people.