A shouting maniac hurled a bottle at a 67-year-old girl in a Midtown subway station Monday – because the sufferer railed over the attacker being free regardless of a prolonged rap sheet.
Vandell Williams, 30, — who has almost a dozen prior busts and a number of documented psychological well being incidents — attacked Milena Ruiz for no obvious purpose on the steps headed to the 5 prepare on the Grand Central-Forty second Avenue, sources and the sufferer stated.
Williams has 11 prior arrests — no less than two of them associated to crimes at the exact same subway station, police stated. He additionally has an in depth historical past as an “emotionally disturbed individual,” with 13 such incidents on his report, in accordance with sources.
“I don’t perceive how individuals like that, they preserve releasing them,” Ruiz stated Tuesday.
The troubling incident unfolded round 4 p.m. whereas Ruiz was along with her house care attendant and talking in Spanish — and the sufferer wonders if the language is what set off the attacker, she stated.
“I didn’t meet that man ever in my life earlier than,” she stated. “I don’t say nothing to him. I used to be strolling, speaking in Spanish.”
Ruiz stated she by no means noticed the bottle coming.
“The girl who deal with me, we held one another as a result of I didn’t wish to fall,” she stated. “We heard a sound like [a] pop. Nevertheless it was on my head the place the bottle hit me. A couple of guys begin yelling at him to cease, as a result of he began like strolling very quick, making an attempt to get out of the station.
“I adopted him as a result of I noticed lot of police earlier than….every part occurred, and I began yelling, ‘Police, police! Please assist me! He hit me!’ After which I noticed two police. They held him.”
Williams began “yelling loads of issues” at Ruiz, however she didn’t listen as she clasped her head in ache.
“After which extra police begin coming,” Ruiz recalled. “They informed me that I used to be going to be secure and don’t fear [about] him. They took him they usually took me too to love a bit police station that they’ve there in Grand Central Station.”
Williams was arrested on the scene and charged with two counts of second-degree assault – one associated to an assault on a senior citizen – in addition to legal possession of a weapon and harassment, police stated.
The sufferer was taken to NYU Langone Well being, the place she was listed in steady situation, cops stated.
“The hospital informed me that I had a concussion, and irritation in my head the place he hit me,” Ruiz stated. “I’m supposed to return to see if there’s anyone to assist me with what he did to me in my head. I’ve been shaking, nervous. I can’t all the time sleep. I’m not feeling effectively. I actually don’t really feel effectively.”
Ruiz had no alternative however to take the prepare again house when she was launched from the hospital round 1 a.m., she stated — however now she’s terrified of resuming her almost-daily commute along with her caretaker.
“Now, I informed her this morning, I’m afraid to stroll outdoors,” she stated.
Williams’ prolonged rap sheet since April 2015 contains arrests for assault, forcible touching, grand larceny, petit larceny, public lewdness, forcible touching, drug-related offenses and theft of service, authorities stated.
On Aug. 26, 2020, he allegedly kicked a 25-year-old girl within the knee when she refused to present him any cash as she walked via a passageway between prepare traces, police stated. He was charged with third-degree assault, cops stated.
On March 25, 2021, he allegedly groped a 30-year-old girl driving an escalator within the station — urgent his personal space in opposition to her buttocks and touching her with out permission, cops stated. He was charged with forcible touching, in accordance with police.
He was additionally arrested for allegedly stealing a cellular phone from a 56-year-old man on board a northbound No. 4 prepare on the 149th Avenue-Grand Concourse station on March 25, 2020 — dealing with expenses of grand larceny and legal possession of stolen property, cops stated.
The inclinations of these circumstances weren’t instantly identified.
His arraignment in connection to the newest assault was pending Tuesday night.
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