SUITLAND, Md. (WUSA) -- A good samaritan is recovering after another brutal beating on the Metro.
"I got stitches on my lip, both inside and outside. They knocked two of my front teeth out. And my eye was closed for days due to the swelling," said 41-year-old Robert Joy.
Joy was picking up his niece at the Suitland station on Friday when he spotted a pack of teenagers beating up a young man.
"They were young teenagers, anywhere from 10-15 of them," said Joy.
So Joy stepped outside to call 911, and that's when the group of teens turned on him.
"I got sucker punched from the right and then they just started kicking me on the ground, kicking my face," said Joy.
Four days after the attack, Joy's anger is now aimed squarely at Metro. He says it took police up to thirty minutes to respond.
"The problem I have with Metro is that they don't seem to care about the people that ride the subway," said Joy. "There was no police. No security guards."
Metro says police were on the scene within ten minutes and they're still investigating. In the meantime, the Guardian Angels are now getting involved by stepping up patrols at the Suitland station starting Wednesday.
"We are going to definitely increase our patrolling here on the trains and on the buses, and we're going to do everything we possibly can to make sure this does not happen again," said Dion King with the DC Guardian Angels.
But Joy says he's not taking any chances. He says the only way to make sure this doesn't happen again is to stop riding Metro.
"I will never ride Metro again. Negative. It's safer to take a cab," said Joy.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. Crime across the Metro system has hit a five-year high, especially when it comes to serious crimes which jumped 12% in 2010.