New York police responded to another horrifying case of an individual being thrown onto the subway tracks. Authorities discovered that the suspect behind the alleged attack knew the victim, but that wasn’t the only harrowing detail they learned about him.
Michael Blount, 29, is accused of grabbing a 37-year-old woman by her hair and attempting to slit her throat as she waited for the A train at 125th Street on Nov. 5. Blount allegedly managed to slash her face repeatedly wielding a razor blade, attacking her just feet away from her daughters, per the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
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Blount then allegedly shoved the woman onto the train tracks. Her daughters were able to pull her back onto the platform with just two minutes to spare before the train’s arrival, prosecutors said.
For the next several weeks, as he evaded authorities, Blount was alleged to continue harassing the victim and her girls through menacing calls and text messages, prosecutors said. He was finally arrested on Dec. 28 and slammed with charges of attempted murder.
Prosecutors didn’t say what the motive behind the attack was, but they did identify the victim as Blount’s ex-girlfriend. They claim right before the attack, he taunted the woman and her children at a deli in Harlem and he eventually followed them down into the train station where the incident occurred.
You think the incident itself was horrifying enough? It gets worse. Records show Blount was out on parole at the time of the incident after serving a prison sentence for the rape of an underaged girl back in 2013. Blount is also a registered “sexually violent offender.”
Now, he’s back in jail without bail, per The New York Post. He’s pleaded not guilty to his charges.
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