Surprising surveillance footage exhibits a girl being viciously assaulted by a homeless man in a Queens subway station after ignoring him on a prepare, police stated Monday.
The assault occurred simply after 5 a.m. Sept. 20 because the 33-year-old sufferer tried to exit the northbound A prepare on the Howard Seaside cease with out partaking with the vagrant, cops stated.
The suspect, 41-year-old Waheed Foster — who has two prior busts for attacking girls — then chased the lady off the prepare, attacking her close to the subway entrance, cops stated.
The sickening footage exhibits Foster throwing the lady into the wall earlier than repeatedly punching and kicking her on the bottom, cops stated.
At one level, the video captures one other straphanger making an attempt to leap in to assist the lady, however Foster chases him away.
Foster, who has two different pending felony instances on costs of felony mischief and minor theft, was arrested shortly after on a number of felony-assault costs, court docket information present.
A surveillance video exhibits a homeless man assaulting a girl on the Howard Seaside-JFK Airport station in Queens on September 20, 2022.
The suspect, Waheed Foster, chased the lady off the prepare earlier than attacking her close to the subway entrance.
Foster was arrested on a number of felony-assault costs for the assault.
Choose Denise Johnson ordered Foster held with out bail throughout his arraignment, information present.
Foster was arrested in 2010 for stabbing a 50-year-old girl within the cheek and shoulder, police sources stated.
He has a complete of seven prior arrests, together with busts for assaulting a girl with a screwdriver, felony mischief, theft and larceny, the sources stated.
Foster’s newest sufferer was handled at Jamaica Hospital and is anticipated to get well, cops stated.
The disturbing assault comes as transit crime has soared greater than 43 p.c thus far this 12 months in comparison with the identical interval in 2021, in accordance with the newest NYPD statistics.
There have been 1,165 crimes reported within the metropolis transit system for the interval final 12 months in comparison with 1,670 this 12 months, the figures present.
Statistics point out that straphangers usually tend to fall sufferer now than earlier than the pandemic — though NYPD brass final week insisted that the press is guilty for the “perceptions” of hazard.
A few of the newest incidents of metropolis subway violence embrace the random slashing of a 30-year-old vacationer from Belgium earlier this month. The brazen assault by a roving band of assailants at a Chelsea station surprised even New Yorkers.
“It was 9 o’clock within the morning, It’s a very populated space. Criminals are getting bolder,” a feminine rider informed The Submit on the time.
Extra reporting by Larry Celona
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