A New York man is tending to a black eye after he was allegedly punched on the subway because he looks like Shia LaBeouf, PEOPLE confirms.
Mario Licato, 26, tells PEOPLE he was walking down the subway stairs at the corner of Essex and Delancey streets on Saturday while going to a friend’s show when a man suddenly punched him.
“I just saw a fist coming at my face,” Licato says. “And the next thing I know I was, like, falling down the stairs and all I heard was, ‘That’s because you look exactly like Shia LaBeouf.’ ”