Several thugs tried to drag a woman off a Queens subway train Thursday night, but she fought back and fatally stabbed one of her tormenters before fleeing on another train, police said.
The large group of men - perhaps as many as eight - surrounded the woman outside a chicken restaurant above the 21st St.-Queensbridge station about 9 p.m., police and a witness said.
The harassment, which may have included unwanted sexual advances toward the woman and grabbing, continued as she entered the subway station.
The woman broke free from the men and frantically ran down to the platform and hopped on an F train, with the thugs right behind.
"They tried to physically drag her off the train, but she fights back," one cop said.
The struggle continued as the group pulled her off the train and dragged her up the stairs to the mezzanine level.
At one point, the woman stabbed one of her attackers - identified by family as Thomas Winston, 29 - multiple times in the chest.
The woman then sprinted back down to the platform - with the thugs in hot pursuit, said witness Ricardo Josephs, 41.
"Seven or eight of them were chasing the woman," said Josephs, an MTA employee.
"They all jumped over the turnstiles after her," he continued. "She got on the Queens [-bound F] train. They tried to grab her; they tried to hold the train - but she got away."
Winston, who lives in a nearby shelter and has a 10-month-old daughter, was pronounced dead at a Manhattan hospital.
The woman was still in the wind Thursday night, police said. One police source said investigators suspect the woman was acting in self-defense.
Winston has numerous prior arrests, including several raps for sale of narcotics, most recently in September.
Winston's aunt, Diane Greenspan, who has custody of his child, was stunned by his death.
"It's terrible, just terrible - on Christmas Eve!" she said, despairingly.
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