The person accused of two unprovoked slashings at Grand Central Terminal on Tuesday night time cried out for his mom at his Christmas Day court docket continuing — as a Manhattan choose ordered him held on $150,000 bail.
Jason Sargeant, 28, was arraigned on expenses of assault and tried assault for what prosecutors described as “extremely critical” knife assaults on two individuals within the metropolis’s greatest practice station on Christmas Eve.
After his temporary Wednesday night time look, Sargeant, a Brooklyn native, seen that his mother was within the courtroom.
“Wait, mother, I didn’t know you have been right here! I didn’t know you have been right here!,” he referred to as out frantically as he was swarmed by court docket officers.
“Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!,” he wailed because the officers dragged him out of the courtroom.
Grand Central Terminal in an unprovoked rampage. William Farrington
About 24 hours earlier, Sargeant “was screaming ‘f–ok all of those individuals’” earlier than he allegedly slashed a 42-year-old man throughout the left wrist on the steps of Grand Central’s southbound entrance, prosecutors mentioned.
“The sufferer was bleeding profusely on the scene,” an assistant district lawyer mentioned in court docket. “He suffered a deep reduce to his wrist, misplaced a big quantity of blood, requiring a tourniquet to be utilized on the scene and was taken to Bellevue, the place he stays for remedy.”
The suspect’s “tirade” continued as he then ran up some stairs and obtained into an argument with a 26-year-old lady, Imani-Ciara Pizarro, earlier than punching her at the back of the pinnacle and stabbing her within the throat close to a turnstile, in keeping with prosecutors.
“He first punched her within the face earlier than then lunging at her with the knife, inflicting a small reduce to her neck,” prosecutors mentioned Wednesday.
Pizarro, 26, advised The Put up she was on the cellphone along with her pal and neighbor when she was attacked.
“I want I might be capable to journey to my livelihood and never be attacked. I want there have been cops in Grand Central after I was attacked, there have been none. I used to be working for assist and there was nobody there,” she mentioned.
Sargeant has three prior arrests for prison mischief, fare beating, and assaulting a police officer, in keeping with sources.
His subsequent court docket listening to is ready for Dec. 30.
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