a homeless man who was captured in surveillance footage Last week a woman was arrested as a juvenile for beating her own grandmother decades ago inside a Queens subway station.
The suspect, 41-year-old Waheed Foster, has a long criminal history, including a statuette for beating his grandmother to death in 1995, when he was just 14 years old.
Police said at the time that the elderly victim, Ariella Masha, had 20 broken ribs, a stab wound in the leg and a punctured liver.
The police then said that the brutal assault was carried out over a fight over money.
He was later blamed for his death, but it is unclear how long he served.
He was living with his grandmother at the time of death and later confessed to killing her days after the fatal encounter when he was confronted by detectives about discrepancies in his story, as Newsday reported in 1995. .
Last week, Foster allegedly attacked a woman after she ignored her on a train, police said Monday.
The attack happened just after 5 a.m. on September 20, when the 33-year-old victim tried to exit the northbound A train at the Howard Beach stop, police said.
Police said Foster allegedly chased the woman from the train and attacked her near the entrance of the subway.
Judge Dennis Johnson ordered Foster to be held without bail during his conviction, records show.
the victim ABC 7. told She hasn’t slept for a week as her head is moaning with pain.
“Do you know how scared I am now? I was never a person to be afraid of,” victim Elizabeth Gomes told the television station.
She said that Foster was leading the attack.
“He’s talking about the devil. He’s talking about a whole bunch of crap,” Gomes reportedly said.
Police sources said Foster was also arrested in 2010 for stabbing a 50-year-old woman in the cheek and shoulder. Violence broke out at a mental institution, where he punched two other people, according to a lawsuit that stemmed from the incident.
Sources said his other prior arrests include charges of assault on a woman with a screwdriver, criminal mischief, dacoity and theft.
In 2004, he attempted to escape from a transport vehicle while he was a state prison inmate, the Post-Standard reported back then.
Foster has two other pending criminal cases on charges of criminal mischief and petty theft.