Suspect nabbed in hammer attack on Asian man has 47 prior busts: cops

The suspect busted for hitting an Asian man with a hammer in a hate-fueled assault in a Manhattan practice station has a prolonged rap sheet with almost 4 dozen prior arrests, cops stated.

Christian Jeffers, 48, who identifies as a lady, was picked up shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday – about 17 hours after she allegedly attacked the 29-year-old male sufferer on the 14th Road 1/2/3 station Tuesday, police stated. 

Jeffers was charged with assault, aggravated harassment and menacing – all as hate crimes – and prison possession of a weapon, authorities stated. Her arraignment was pending Thursday morning.

Previous to that bust, she was arrested 47 occasions, courting again to 2007, police stated. 

Jeffers was launched from jail again in June after serving almost six years on a second-degree theft conviction, data present. 

Christian Jeffers was picked up shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday.

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Jeffers was charged with assault, aggravated harassment and menacing.

Simply over per week later, she was busted for petit larceny, cops stated. 

She was additionally busted on a prostitution cost in 2008, and has prior arrests for grand larceny, public lewdness, theft of service and prison possession of a managed substance, cops stated. 

The sufferer of the Tuesday assault, who didn't need to be recognized, instructed The Submit Wednesday that he was returning dwelling from dinner with a pal round 9 p.m. when he ran into his deranged attacker.

A video nonetheless of the harrowing assault.

The sufferer after the assault.

“He ended up bumping into me after which after that, he circled attempting to get into my face fairly aggressively, and in that type of course of he ended up stepping on me,” the sufferer stated. “He stepped on my foot after which after that, he took out the hammer after which I used to be hit on the pinnacle.

“I didn’t see the hammer. I simply noticed him reaching right into a bag, pulled one thing out,” he continued. “It occurred, like, too fast for me to react.”

He stated New Yorkers are compelled to reside in concern amid the current out-of-control violence on the rails. 

“It’s onerous as a result of if now we have to be afraid or simply be consistently conscious, be afraid of anybody who's passing by you and simply, you already know, who is aware of what they've, it’s probably not a approach to reside,” the sufferer stated.