He was nearly killed by a bad “Santa,” then saved by a pair of mystery angels.
The wife of an elderly man pushed onto the St. Nicholas Avenue subway tracks by a St. Nick lookalike in Harlem said Sunday she’s thankful to the good Samaritans who pulled her hubby to safety.
“God sent angels to come help, and I’m very grateful,” said Yumei Li Lin, the wife of victim Shou Kuan Lin, 72.
“They just brought my husband back up to me without thinking about their lives. They came and helped save my husband. I was shocked but also very moved. If I could meet them, I have to say thank you to them. But I do not know them” because they left as other help arrived.
Lin remained in critical condition at St. Luke’s Hospital, where his wife kept vigil after Friday’s horrific attack.
The worried wife said Lin, a retired garment factory worker, who suffered a fractured skull in the fall, still has blood clots in his brain. He is listed in critical condition.
Yumei and her husband were taking the subway from Chinatown to their Amsterdam Avenue home and had gotten off at the 145th St/St. Nicholas Avenue stop to change trains.
Cops said that’s when homeless suspect Rudralall Baldeo, 57, who collects bottles and cans for income, randomly pushed Lin off the crowded northbound A and C platform.
Law-enforcement sources said they believe Baldeo did not intentionally push the elderly man onto the tracks. Sources said the suspect was intoxicated, confused and disorientated at the time of the incident. Later, at the precinct, he sobered up and had a “what-the-f–k-did-I-do look” on his face as cops were were charging him, a source said.
He was still being processed on charges of attempted murder and felony assault Sunday after a psychiatric evaluation.
Yumei lamented the fact that she and her husband even have to use the subway.
“The price for the subway increases, but the security doesn’t increase at all,” Yumei said. “I have no choice. I don’t have a car, so I depend in the subway. We’ve been wishing to move closer to Chinatown so we don’t have to take the train so far” to get to the neighorhood, where they go to church.
“We’ve been waiting more than 10 years. We are getting older, and we don’t have enough income to move, so we have to live very far.”
Additional reporting by Jamie Schram.