‘Come Home Jeorkis’ - Family Pleads After Mom Sucker Punched on Subway
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A missing person’s flyer posted for Jeorkis Duran Frias by family members at the corner of Marion Avenue and East 194 Street as seen in this photo taken on Saturday, March 7, 2026. -Photo by David Greene
By David Greene
Bronx Voice
March 30, 2026
BRONX, NY - The older sister of a young Bedford Park man missing since January is urging him to come home after their mother was violently attacked and injured while traveling from work as a home attendant worker in Brooklyn.
On March 16, an NYPD official confirmed that Jeorkis Duran Frias, 17, “ran away from a family member” on Tuesday, January 20. A flyer posted by family members describes Frias as being 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 140 pounds with dark brown hair and brown eyes.
According to Frias’ older sister Isamar Duran, the teen was last seen at the corner of Bainbridge Avenue and East 194 Street. Frias was last seen wearing all black clothing and Jordan 4 Retro Thunder sneakers. The family has since saturated the Bedford Park neighborhood with flyers with a picture of Frias.
During a telephone interview with Duran on Saturday, March 14, she told Norwood News that the family has been in Bedford Park for about the last five years when they moved from Sherman Avenue and East 167 Street. According to Duran, Frias had attended Bronx Engineer and Technology Academy on the campus of John F. Kennedy High School in Kingsbridge. Duran recalled, “But he stopped going to school right before he went missing.”
When asked if Frias had been hanging out with a bad crowd, Duran replied, “Oh no, he wouldn’t leave the house at all, so that’s why we were surprised. We thought that after he left school, he had no friends.” She added, “We never saw him hanging out with anybody around here, not at all.”
Police confirmed the assault of their mother Benita Frias, 43, who was one of three people who assaulted in a Sunset Park Brooklyn subway station, when Benita was sucker-punched and fell to her knees, breaking her right knee. Police later arrested 25-year-old Cutris Signal of Brooklyn.
Duran said, “She works midnights, so it was early in the morning, and she was waiting for the subway and this man randomly without saying anything, when out of the blue he attacked her and another lady.” Duran says her mom spent nearly two weeks in the hospital recovering from reconstructive surgery on her knee.
Asked if Frias carried ID and the possibility that the Dominican Republic-born Frias could have been picked up and detained by ICE agents, Duran replied, “He is a legal resident and I’m not sure if he’s carrying ID with him. I suppose not because I don’t think he ever got a real state ID.”
Asked how she was coping, Duran said, “It’s hard. I can’t stop thinking where my brother could be. Is he safe? Is he eating? I don’t know. I’m also worried about my mom, just thinking about that. Her leg is recovering but mentally she’s not doing well at all because she doesn’t know where her son could be and if he’s in danger or not.”
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