A Morristown man was charged with assault and bias intimidation after he allegedly attacked a another man on an NJ Transit train on Friday night.

Johnny Juica-Pena, 52, of Morristown was arrested and charged with harassment, simple assault and bias intimidation.

Around 11 p.m. on Friday night there was a dispute and altercation involving two adult males on Morris & Essex lines train 6675 at Morristown, said Jim Smith, an NJ Transit spokesman. Allegations are that racial slurs were involved and the incident is under investigation, he said.

The incident is being treated as a bias incident because the passenger who was assaulted was wearing a Kufi, a wool cap worn by Muslim men and Jucia-Pena allegedly yelled racial slurs at the victim, before punching him, according to a report on News12.

The argument started after the victim couldn’t answer Juica-Pena when he asked if anyone was in the bathroom, according to News12. The victim told News12 that Jucia-Pena “started spewing racial epitaphs at me ... As I told him to leave me alone, I’m not about that, he reached down and punches me in the face.”

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