The deranged nut charged with severely slashing an MTA employee at a Brooklyn subway station was on parole on the time of the assault — and has an extended rap sheet that features an eerily related assault on a transit employee.
Jonathan Davalos is charged with tried homicide, assault and menacing for repeatedly stabbing the 60-year-old who discovered him sleeping on a prepare on the Crown Heights-Utica Avenue station and woke him up.
Information that the 27-year-old was free to allegedly commit one other knife assault shocked the sufferer of the 2021 Amsterdam Avenue slashing.
“He obtained out? I’m about to have a panic assault,” mentioned the 22-year-old girl about Davalos, solely did three years and is on parole till 2028. “He shouldn’t be out, no!”
Davalos’ newest alleged sufferer, MTA employee Myran Pollack — who was nearly to retire when he was stabbed — is now combating for his life.
MTA safety officers advised The Put up that Davalos was allegedly nonetheless on prime of Pollack when officers arrived on the scene and took the accused slasher into custody.
He was arraigned in Brooklyn Prison Courtroom and ordered held with out bail on Wednesday.
“This defendant is accused of viciously attacking and significantly injuring a hardworking prepare operator who was merely doing his job,” Brooklkyn Distirct Legal professional Eric Gonzalez mentioned.
“Protecting straphangers and transit staff secure is crucial to the functioning of our metropolis and a prime precedence for my workplace,” Gonzalez mentioned. “My ideas are with Mr. Pollack and his household as he recovers from this mindless act of violence.”
Davalos already had greater than a half-dozen busts on his file, together with one other knife assault on an MTA employee who woke him up aboard a 6 prepare close to the Brooklyn Bridge on Jan. 18, 2020.
It was simply the subsequent yr when Davalos would once more commit a knifing — which t despatched him to state jail for greater than three years, till he was launched from the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Westchester County in February this yr.
In the meantime, Davalos, sporting a black tee shirt with “Smoker Coney Island Brooklyn” written on it and white sneakers, was led in handcuffs right into a police van for a switch to Brooklyn Prison Courtroom earlier within the day.
He didn’t reply to questions from reporters.
A spokesman for TWU Native 100 mentioned Pollack is in a medically inducted coma and in essential however steady situation following the assault.
“We obtained to discover a strategy to get individuals like this perpetrator out of the general public area, out of the subways, so that they don’t assault individuals many times,” MTA CEO Janno Lieber mentioned on Tuesday. “Crime is down however recidivism has a disproportionate impression on New Yorkers.”
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