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A ballet dancer rescued a homeless man that fell onto subway tracks in Manhattan on Saturday Night.
An unidentified 58-year-old homeless man was pushed onto subway tracks by a female assailant in New York City. After seeing that no one was willing to help, Gray Davis, a 31-year-old dancer with the American Ballet Theater, jumped onto the tracks to save the man, who was unconscious.
“People were screaming to get help. But nobody jumped down. So I jumped down,” Davis said in an interview with the New York Times.
Once on the tracks, Davis picked up the man and lifted him to the platform, and with the help of subway users, they got the man out of the path. Right at that moment, he heard the sound of a train approaching and had to figure out how to get out of the tracks.
As a ballet dancer, he couldn’t find a more classy way to getting back up on the platform than using his ballet trainer. “I never realized how high it was. Luckily, I’m a ballet dancer, so I swung my leg up,” he told the New York Times.
The responsible for the assault got arrested
The police said that the incident took place around 11:20 p.m. on Saturday. Davis had just watched his wife, Cassandra Trenary – who’s also a dancer with American Ballet Theater – giving a performance of ‘The Golden Cockerel’ at the Metropolitan Opera House. The couple and Davis mother were leaving the theater when the incident happened.
After the woman pushed the homeless man onto the tracks at 72nd Street station, she fled on foot, according to witnesses. Soon after, the police arrested the 23-year-old woman, identified as Carolyn Mack, of the Bronx, on an assault charge.
According to reports, the two did not know each other but were heard arguing before it turned physical. Davis had gone upstairs to look for a security officer that could help solve the problem but found no one. When he got down, the man had already been pushed.
He was knocked unconscious as he hit the tracks but woke up before he was taken to the hospital.
Davis says he didn’t realize how dangerous his prowess had been until he saw his wife coming down crying.
