Police in Chicago have arrested a man who allegedly shoved a stranger onto subway tracks in August, a “full-on running push” in which the accused attacker appeared like a “lion looking at his prey,” according to the victim.

Chad Estep, 34, faces charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery in connection to the Aug. 1 attack at the Washington Station on the Chicago Transit Authority’s Blue Line. He’s set to appear for a bond hearing later Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Estep allegedly shoved 46-year-old Ben Benedict off the platform as Benedict returned home from a Chicago Cubs game, police said. Benedict told the Tribune that he was standing near the platform edge when he felt something hit his back, and he plunged five feet onto the tracks below.

Benedict missed hitting the electrified third rail by just a foot, he said, and was lucky enough that a train wasn’t approaching the station at the time. He then saw the man who seemingly pushed him staring back at him and remaining silent.

Minutes earlier, the same man had been standing on the platform with Benedict before the attack, which was a “full-on running push,” he said.

“It was like lion looking at his prey, that’s kinda what it looked like to me,” Benedict told the paper.

Benedict said Estep was standing just feet away from him on the platform for “two or three minutes” minutes prior to the unprovoked attack.

A video released by police more than a month after the alleged attack – following an inquiry by the Tribune — showed a suspect hopping a turnstile at the station, but didn’t show footage of the incident. Investigators later contacted Benedict and found that the men didn’t know each other.

“There’s no information that they knew each other prior,” Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the newspaper.

Guglielmi said police were able to apprehend Estep with help from an “associate” of his who knew about the incident. Benedict later identified Estep as the man who pushed him in a police lineup, Guglielmi said.

On Monday, law enforcement sources told The Post that a 35-year-old actress with roles in off-Broadway shows allegedly tried to push a fellow straphanger into the path of a subway train at New York City’s Union Square station early Saturday.

Keira Keeley, 35, who has also made appearances in TV shows like “Elementary” and “The Path,” allegedly walked up behind 57-year-old Leonore Gonzalez of the Bronx and pushed her from behind as she waited for the 4/5/6 train platform. She suffered a bruise on her right elbow and wrist, as well as back pain after the push, sources said.