A Brooklyn girl who was mercilessly stalked by deranged subway shoving suspect Kamel Hawkins stated he terrified her for weeks — and is grateful she wasn’t the one who he ultimately put within the hospital.
“It might have been me,” stated the lady, who requested to not be recognized, advised The Publish Wednesday. “Individuals at all times say that you simply gotta learn the purple flags, and I’m glad I did.
“It’s unhappy” she added. “I don’t want nothing dangerous for him. He might have completed faculty and grow to be an IT tech. He might have left the initiatives. He might have modified his personal story.”
As an alternative, Hawkins, 23, was arraigned on tried homicide and assault costs in Manhattan Prison Courtroom within the horrifying caught-on-vide transit assault on 45-year-old straphanger Joseph Lynskey.
Hawkins was already going through assault and harassment costs in Brooklyn when he allegedly shoved Lynskey — who miraculously survived regardless of a cranium fracture, damaged ribs and a ruptured spleen.
The sufferer was listed in steady situation at Bellevue Hospital on Wednesday.
Based on Hawkins’ alleged stalking sufferer, the 2 met whereas learning at Brooklyn Job Corps.
She stated the 2 began “hanging out” however the relationship by no means turned romantic — and rapidly fizzled out after Hawkins slugged her canine for no purpose within the fall.
“I went again within the room, like, ‘Did you simply hit my canine?’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah, that n—a is wilin.’ Why would you hit my canine? My canine is like my child,” she stated. “After that I let him know I’m not cool with him.”
However the girl stated Hawkins didn’t get the message, even after she blocked him on her telephone.
On Oct. 9 he confirmed up at her condominium.
“Out of nowhere he’s kicking my door. He’s received his ski masks on,” she stated.
She stated it continued to occur over the approaching days, prompting her to indicate up at Hawkins’ father’s condominium at Whitman Homes in Brooklyn — to no avail.
“‘Inform your son to cease kicking down my door, it’s scary,’” the lady stated she advised Shamel Hawkins. “‘He’s sending me sexual textual content messages.’ It appeared his dad extra needed us to maneuver away from the door.
“[Kamel] involves the door, similar ski masks he’s carrying within the video,” she stated. “He threw bleach on me and my finest good friend. It received in my eye. He’s screaming, ‘You bitches is loopy. I don’t know you bitches.’”
She stated the harassment reached a fever pitch on Oct. 19.
“I got here outdoors. I used to be going to hang around with my boyfriend, and he had the identical ski masks, similar hoodie from the [subway shove] video,” she recalled. “I pulled out my pepper spray. I advised him I’m going to pepper spray you. He picked up a canned drink and threw it at me, ‘You don’t received your boyfriend with you, you don’t received you uncle with you,’
“I sprayed him, however it didn’t actually do something,” she stated.
That’s when the lady known as the cops and Hawkins was arrested — solely to be launched with out bail on Oct. 20 to enter a courtroom intervention program, courtroom data present.
In the meantime, the frightened girl was pressured to request an emergency New York Metropolis Housing Authority relocation on Nov. 11 and now lives at a distinct housing advanced.
“He creeps round,” she stated of Hawkins. “You don’t even know the place he’s at. One time me and my boyfriend was sitting outdoors, 2, 3 within the morning, after which he was simply strolling, like that’s bizarre.”
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