William Blount was arrested for assaulting Nina Rothschild with a hammer.
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The creep suspected of bludgeoning a “hero’’ metropolis well being employee with a hammer in a Queens subway station was arrested Sunday, police mentioned.
William Blount, 57, is going through costs of tried homicide, theft and assault for the brutal Thursday night assault that critically wounded sufferer Nina Rothschild, 57, on the Queens Plaza E, M and R station.
The assault was denounced by the Mayor Eric Adams, who mentioned Friday that “a lady taking the prepare shouldn't be struck within the head with a hammer.”
Rothschild was headed dwelling from her job as a analysis scientist with the New York Metropolis Well being Division when she was attacked at round 11:20 p.m.
Blount, whose final recognized handle is in Astoria, has a half-dozen prior arrests — together with on costs of theft and felony possession of a managed substance, sources mentioned.
Data present he served time within the late Nineteen Eighties for tried felony sale of a managed substance.
Footage reveals Blount allegedly creeping up behind her on the steps and kicking her in what appeared like an try to make her fall. He then hit the scientist a number of occasions within the head, fracturing her cranium, and ran off together with her pocketbook, cops mentioned.
Blount allegedly stole two cellphones, debit playing cards, bank cards and an unknown amount of cash from Rothschild, in line with police. The sufferer was taken to Weill Cornell Medical in vital situation.
“From what she informed me on the cellphone, she was simply strolling down the steps to get into the subway on the best way dwelling from work when she was attacked by anyone from behind,” mentioned her brother, Gerson Rothschild, a scientist at Columbia College, to ABC-TV.
“She stored screaming, ‘Cease! Cease!’ however the particular person both wouldn’t cease,” the brother added.
On Sunday night, Rothschild welcomed the information of Blount’s arrest.
“Nina could be hopeful that the person would get the therapy that he wants throughout his time of incarceration,” he informed The Put up in an e mail.
“Fortunately, Nina is certainly getting stronger by the day. Intellectually she is obvious on occasions from 30 years in the past and from 3 days in the past and I attribute that to the superb care of the trauma group at NYP-Weill Cornell who knew to alleviate the elevated intracranial strain instantly upon her arrival on the hospital,” he continued.
“She has not but gotten off the bed in order that questions of coordination and steadiness stay presently unanswered.”
Metropolis Well being Division Commissioner Dave Chokshi known as Rothschild a “hero.”
“Nina has labored tirelessly in service to her fellow New Yorkers and she or he is actually a public well being hero,” Chokshi mentioned in a press release following the assault.
“The Well being Division and I'll do every thing we will to help her in her restoration — and we ask that every one New Yorkers preserve her and her household of their ideas whereas respecting their privateness throughout this troublesome time.”
Her neighbor Martha, who didn’t give her final title, informed The Put up final week that Rothschild “works actually laborious” for the folks of New York.
“I do know that as a result of she comes dwelling actually late,” she mentioned.
The station the place Rothschild was attacked was apparently one the place extra cops had been added as a part of the mayor’s plan to fight subway crime and violence.
One other Queens straphanger was struck over the top in an unprovoked assault the identical night time Rothschild was overwhelmed with a hammer.
Two attackers boarded the northbound R prepare on the 67th Avenue subway station round 9 p.m. Thursday and hit a 35-year-old passenger within the head “with an unknown object inflicting a laceration and bleeding,” cops mentioned in a press release. The suspects fled, and the sufferer was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in secure situation.
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