A deranged homeless man on parole after serving time for tried homicide — for shoving a transgender girl onto subway tracks a decade in the past — assaulted one other straphanger in an unprovoked assault inside the transit system on Sunday, in line with cops.
The suspect, 42-year-old Rolan Reid, requested a lady to swipe him right into a Manhattan station together with her MetroCard on the mezzanine stage of the 14th Road B/D/F station Sunday at 2:45 p.m., police and sources stated.
When she refused, Reid struck her with a steel rod after which punched her within the arm, in line with regulation enforcement sources.
The 28-year-old sufferer sustained a laceration within the unprovoked assault, the NYPD stated.
She was taken to Bellevue Hospital by paramedics and was listed in steady situation.
Officers from Transit District Two within the Sixth Precinct arrested the suspect on the station, cops stated.
Reid was charged with one rely of assault to trigger bodily damage with a weapon, possession of a cast instrument – sources stated he had 14 bent MetroCards in his possession – and felony possession of a weapon, police stated.
Reid was on parole till March 2028 after he was convicted of one other subway assault, which investigators designated a hate crime.
On June 5, 2015, Reid confronted a transgender girl on the southbound No. 6 platform on the Bleecker/Lafayette Road station at 9 a.m., police stated.
He was ranting when he approached the sufferer.
“What are you taking a look at?” he screamed on the girl, additionally 28.
Then he threw a plastic bottle he had simply fished out of a trash can at her and charged. He shoved her onto the tracks and began hurling anti-transgender feedback at her as she desperately tried to climb out, in line with cops and prosecutors.
Police obtained safety footage of Reid rummaging in a close-by trash can simply moments earlier than he threw the plastic bottle on the sufferer.
Different riders rushed to the sufferer’s support and lifted her off the tracks. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital the place she was handled for cuts and bruises and launched, cops stated.
Reid was charged with second-degree tried homicide and second- and third-degree assault. The costs had been upgraded to hate crimes, investigators stated.
He has 20 different arrests — a lot of them transit-related, together with fare beating and menacing, sources stated.
In a separate subway crime on Sunday, three teenagers cornered a 14-year-old on the staircase of the northbound Q practice station at Avenue U in Brooklyn round 4:40 p.m. and stole his iPhone and his backpack containing his sneakers and a coat, cops stated.
Police stated there have been no accidents in throughout theft and the incident was underneath investigation. The teenager suspects stay at massive.
Regardless of the 2 Sunday incidents, subway crime decreased to the second-lowest stage in 27 years, in line with NYPD stats launched in April, with main crime dropping 18% in the course of the first quarter.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch reported that for the primary time in seven years there have been zero murders within the transit system.
She credited the drop to a surge in NYPD patrols of subway platforms and trains to fight crime and violence.
“The men and women of the NYPD are driving record-breaking reductions in crime and violence,” Tisch wrote within the report. “Within the first quarter of this 12 months, we’ve minimize capturing incidents right down to the bottom quantity in historical past and made our subways safer than they’ve been in almost a decade. Our precision policing methods aren’t simply working — they’re delivering historic outcomes and making New York Metropolis the most secure large metropolis within the nation.”
