Suspect arrested in beating of 16-year-old girl in subway in Brooklyn: sources

Editor's note: The story in the video player originally aired on March 7, 2024.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A suspect has been arrested in the beating of a 16-year-old girl on a subway train in Brooklyn last month, police sources said Tuesday.

Police were using cellphone video of the attack to try to identify the two suspects involved, according to the NYPD.

The 16-year-old victim was walking on Nostrand Avenue in East Flatbush around 9 p.m. on Feb. 27 when two males threw water and soda at her, police said. The girl got on a No. 2 train at the Newkirk Avenue–Little Haiti station and the two suspects followed her onto the train, according to police.

One of the suspects punched and threw water in the victim’s face, police said. A second suspect then jumped up and kicked the girl in the face, according to authorities.

The victim, identified as Sharla, recounted the harrowing incident in an interview with PIX11 News.

"He punched me in the eye," Sharla said. "I was like get off me, get off me, and he hit and spit at me."

Sabine Mondesir, the victim's mother, said she couldn't watch the entire video.

"I saw half and I couldn't finish. It was painful to watch your kid get kicked. It was too much," Mondesir said.

Sharla said she’d been targeted and picked on by the boys since January.

“They were laughing about the entire situation, saying how people are not going to do anything to them,” Sharla's cousin said.

Sharla said that she now fears for her safety.

“Right now I can’t really be able to go anywhere until they are found,” Sharla said. “I want myself to be safe. I just want to be able to go out places and not feel like something bad is going to happen to me.”

Sharla’s mother said she's been accompanying Sharla to and from school and even pulled her daughter out of her after-school program to be safe.

"I just want them caught and get justice for my daughter," Mondesir said.