AC360 EXCLUSIVE: Photographer R. Umar Abbasi “If I could have, I would have saved him”

Last night on AC360°, Anderson spoke to NY Post photographer R. Umar Abbasi, who photographed Ki-Suck Han on NYC subway tracks seconds before his death. Abbasi, who was about 400 feet away from Han when he entered the station, said he didn’t see a confrontation but from his peripheral vision “saw a body being flung onto the tracks and there was a collective gasp that went into the air”.

Abbasi was worried that he too would be pushed onto the tracks as the alleged suspect was walking towards him on the platform.

To the Han family he says “If I could have, I would have saved him. It wasn’t important to get the photograph. The photograph came out as a result of my efforts, of what I could think at that moment to do.” In hindsight, Abbasi said he wished he would have had the presence of mind to tell Han to run in other direction and try to outrun the train.