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A Columbia University graduate student is hospitalized with brain trauma after an apparent attack in a  subway.<br>Jay Reist, 29, is being monitored in the ICU at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights after he was allegedly struck in the head last Friday; it's still unclear to police and Reist's family how - or why - he was so badly wounded.<br>Surveillance video showed Reist exiting a subway station 15th street and 8th Avenue around 2 a.m. before getting into an . <br>He started seizing while in the rideshare, prompting the driver to take him to the hospital, where he remains on a ventilator.<br>         Jay Reist, 29, is being monitored in the ICU at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights after he was struck in the head last Friday<br>Reist's injury comes as violent crime has become endemic on the transport system and across the city as a whole.<br>Mayor Eric Adams , thanks to the city's lax bail laws that prioritize the wellbeing of suspects over crime victims.<br>Reist went out for drinks with friends in the Lower East Side on Thursday. He was pictured partying at Dream Baby on Avenue B before his injury.<br>He was last seen in stable condition leaving the subway station early Friday morning.<br>His mother, Louise Reist, suspects her aspiring actor son was attacked somewhere along the L line stops in Manhattan.<br>'I think that Jay was at the wrong place at the wrong time,' she told . <br>Louise said she knew something had happened to Reist after he failed to return to their Inwood home and wasn't answering her text messages.<br>'I called his number and a nurse answered the phone!' she recalled.<br>         Surveillance video showed Reist exiting a subway station 15th street and 8th Avenue around 2 a.m. before getting into an Uber. He started seizing while in the rideshare, prompting the driver to take him to the hospital where he remains on a ventilator<br>         Reist went out for drinks with friends in the Lower East Side on Thursday. He was pictured partying at Dream Baby on Avenue B before his injury<br>The concerned mother said she found her son at the hospital where he was intubated and battling a brain injury. <br>'He's just lying in bed needing machines to help him live,' Louise said, adding that she is really angry about what happened to Reist.<br>'I am not at all hating humanity, I have more gratitude now than I've had in a long time because of the way people are taking care of us,' she said. 'There is just an angry person out there.'<br>   RELATED ARTICLES                  <br><br><br><br>Share this article<br>Share<br><br><br>Resit's acting class created a to help raise money for his medical expenses. As of Thursday morning, it had earned more than $78,000. <br>The NYPD confirmed to DailyMail.com that a complaint has been filed and officials are investigating the circumstances surrounding Reist's injuries.<br>Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<br>         His mother, Louise Reist, suspects her aspiring actor son was attacked somewhere along the L line stops in Manhattan. 'I think that Jay was at the wrong place at the wrong time,' she said<br>         Louise said she knew something had happened to Reist after he failed to return to their Inwood home and wasn't answering her text messages<br>         Resit's acting class created a GoFundMe to help raise money for his medical expenses. As of Thursday morning, the fundraiser had earned more than $78,000<br>NYPD data shows that crime is on the rise across the city.<br>So far this year, major crimes are up 36.9 percent from the same period one year ago, with felony assault up by 19 percent.<br>Robbery is up 39.6 percent, burglary rising 33 percent, and transit crimes jumping 53 percent. Rape also rose by 11.3 percent.<br>Murders are down 4.3 percent from last year, and shooting victims have dropped 5.8 percent, gains that Adams and police officials attribute to a push to get illegal guns off the streets.<br>           NYPD data shows crime is on the rise across the city with major crimes up 36.9 percent from the same period one year ago<br>Meanwhile, Adams, who has sworn to tackle the city's skyrocketing crime, slammed the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for its lax bail policies, alleging they're contributing to the problem.<br>Adams dubbed the city a 'laughingstock' Wednesday after a teen accused of brutally attacking an NYPD cop on a subway platform while free on bail was released to a family center in Brooklyn.<br>Horrifying footage  before grabbing him around the neck and slamming him repeatedly into metal railings on Saturday.<br>The teen was previously arrested for possession of a loaded gun and robbery last Wednesday, but was released the next day after appearing in court.<br>The DA requested he be released with 'intensive community monitoring,' even after being accused of robbing a 49-year-old man of his cellphone with three other accomplices. <br>         Mayor Adams say the teen's release, and others like it, 'disregard of public safety' in a press conference on Tuesday<br>                The teen appeared in court Tuesday and asked if he could press charges, but did not specify who he wanted to press charges against<br>That was the same 'intensive community monitoring' he had been placed under between his alleged mugging attack, and his alleged attack on the cop.  <br>'This person was arrested for robbery a few days ago, now he's back,' Adams said. 'As soon as we catch them, the system releases them, and they repeat the action.'<br>'When I say we're the laughingstock of the country, this is what I'm talking about,' he continued, calling the act issue 'just a total disregard for public safety.'<br>The boy was released without bail again on Sunday after the subway incident and the case was transferred to Family Court, where court proceedings are barred from public view. <br>During a court hearing on Tuesday, he was ordered to stay at St. John's, a 'non-secure detention facility' where he will have a 6 p.m. curfew as he awaits the outcome of the case.<br>       The teenager allegedly jumped the turnstiles at the East Harlem subway station on Saturday before being approached by officers. 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