A knife-wielding maniac with a historical past of psychological sickness and 53 prior arrests is needed in reference to a minimum of two stabbings within the subway this week, The Submit has realized.
Cops trying to find Jamar Banks had been warned to make use of “excessive warning” when encountering him as a result of he’s believed to be armed with “a big knife,” in response to a message despatched to cops and obtained by The Submit.
Banks, 52, is understood to frequent the No. 2 and No. 5 subway traces, authorities stated within the message.
He’s being sought in reference to stabbings on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2, in response to the NYPD.
A surveillance picture allegedly reveals Banks holding the knife in gloved fingers.
“He has a really very prolonged arrest historical past,” a police supply stated. “It appears like he rides the rails forwards and backwards.”
Banks is needed for allegedly approaching a 31-year-old man from behind on a 2 practice on the Union Sq. station in Manhattan on Wednesday and beginning an argument, earlier than stabbing him within the again and operating away.
He’s additionally suspected of knifing an off-duty MTA cleaner within the again and armpit round 6 a.m. Thursday, after beginning an argument with the sufferer on a northbound 5 practice platform on the Pelham Bay station within the Bronx, police stated.
The attacker fled after the stabbing.
Each victims had been taken to hospitals in secure situation.
Banks’ rap sheet contains arrests for weapons possession, assault, legal trespassing, turnstile leaping and petty larceny, the supply stated.
His final arrest was on Nov. 14 for petty larceny within the Bronx.
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