Man Who Punched 5-Year-Old On Train In Bronx Psych Ward: Report

COBBLE HILL, NY — The man who punched a 5-year-old in the face on a Brooklyn G train checked himself into a hospital psychiatric unit in The Bronx days later, the New York Daily News reported.

Ramon Thomas, 25, went to the Jacobi Medical Center on Monday, two days after he attacked the boy on the train, and police can't question or arrest him until he gets released, the News reported.

Police could not confirm that Thomas checked himself into the hospital.

On Saturday, the boy and his mother were riding the G train when Thomas punched him in the face near the Bergen Street station at about 4:25 p.m., the NYPD said.

Thomas taunted the boy afterward and asked him, "Are you going to cry to your mommy?" He then ran out of the train when it stopped at Bergen Street, police said.

A fellow straphanger snapped a photo of the man in the station, who police later identified as Thomas.

The victim has bruising and swelling to the left side of his face from the punch and was taken to NYU Langone Health Cobble Hill, where he was treated and released, police said.

Thomas was previously arrested in February for fare evasion in a subway, police said.

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