One month later, senior in random transit assault remains in hospital

Jose Alvarez was waiting for the train at Marlborough station around 9:45 a.m. on March 30, on his way to an eye appointment.

Jose Alvarez was waiting for the train at Marlborough station around 9:45 a.m. on March 30, on his way to an eye appointment.

His daughter had offered to take the day off work to drive him, but he wouldn't have any of it.

"'No, no, don't worry. This is a chance for me to do my exercise'" Tarin Alvarez recalled her dad saying.

"He loves taking the train, the bus."

But as he stood on the platform, a woman smashed a glass bottle across his face - an attack police say was as unpredictable as it was brutal.

Another man struck him with another object just a moment later.

No bystanders intervened.