An unhinged man randomly slugged a feminine MTA employee within the face in a Midtown station, claiming he attacked her “as a result of the voices in my head have been speaking to me,” prosecutors say.
Robert Ray, 33, adopted the station agent as she stopped to examine on some escalators on her solution to the toilet within the East 53rd Road and Lexington hub in Manhattan round 6:05 a.m. Sept. 16, the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace stated.
Ray then ran as much as the employee and punched her within the face, inflicting her to fall to the bottom and leaving her with swelling and bruising, prosecutors stated.
The suspect took off however was busted later that day and charged with second-degree assault, a felony, officers stated.
Throughout an interview with a detective, Ray first denied any wrongdoing and requested if there was any proof and whether or not he was going to jail, in response to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
However then he modified his tune – claiming he didn’t imply to harm the employee, the court docket doc reveals.
“I obtained mad as a result of voices in my head [were] speaking to me,” he claimed. “I didn’t attempt to harm her, don’t have something in opposition to her. I used to be simply mad.
“It was an accident, didn’t imply to harm her, solely hit her one time,” Ray continued, in response to the indictment. “Is that this a felony? How is that this a felony? However it was only one little hit. Are you able to speak to [the] sufferer, inform her sorry, I didn’t do nothing.”
He was ordered held on $25,000 money bail, $50,000 insurance coverage firm bond and $100,000 partially secured surety bond, the DA’s workplace stated.
“As alleged, Robert Ray punched an MTA worker in an unprovoked assault, inflicting her to fall to the bottom,” District Legal professional Alvin Bragg stated in a press release.
“Thousands and thousands of New Yorkers depend on the onerous work of our devoted MTA workers every single day, and we’ll proceed to work intently with our regulation enforcement companions to make sure our transit system is secure. I hope the sufferer continues to heal from this assault,” Bragg stated.
In one other more moderen assault on an MTA employee, Jonathan Davalos, 27, was charged with tried homicide for brutally stabbing a 60-year-old male worker who requested him to depart a Brooklyn practice on the final cease Tuesday, cops stated.
Davalos has an extended rap sheet that features an eerily comparable assault on a transit employee and one other knifing three years in the past, in response to authorities and sources.
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