The person accused of two unprovoked slashings at Grand Central Terminal on Tuesday night time cried out for his mom at his Christmas Day court docket continuing — as a Manhattan decide ordered him held on $150,000 bail.
Jason Sargeant, 28, was arraigned on prices of assault and tried assault for what prosecutors described as “incredibly serious” knife assaults on two individuals within the metropolis’s largest prepare station on Christmas Eve.
After his temporary Wednesday night time look, Sargeant, a Brooklyn native, observed that his mother was within the courtroom.
“Wait, mom, I didn’t know you were here! I didn’t know you were here!,” he known as out frantically as he was swarmed by court docket officers.
“Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!,” he wailed because the officers dragged him out of the courtroom.
Grand Central Terminal in an unprovoked rampage. William Farrington
About 24 hours earlier, Sargeant “was screaming ‘f–k all of these people’” earlier than he allegedly slashed a 42-year-old man throughout the left wrist on the steps of Grand Central’s southbound entrance, prosecutors stated.
“The victim was bleeding profusely on the scene,” an assistant district lawyer stated in court docket. “He suffered a deep cut to his wrist, lost a significant amount of blood, requiring a tourniquet to be applied on the scene and was taken to Bellevue, where he remains for treatment.”
The suspect’s “tirade” continued as he then ran up some stairs and obtained into an argument with a 26-year-old girl, Imani-Ciara Pizarro, earlier than punching her behind the pinnacle and stabbing her within the throat close to a turnstile, in keeping with prosecutors.
“He first punched her in the face before then lunging at her with the knife, causing a small cut to her neck,” prosecutors stated Wednesday.
Pizarro, 26, advised The Submit she was on the cellphone together with her buddy and neighbor when she was attacked.
“I wish I could be able to travel to my livelihood and not be attacked. I wish there were cops in Grand Central when I was attacked, there were none. I was running for help and there was no one there,” she stated.
Sargeant has three prior arrests for prison mischief, fare beating, and assaulting a police officer, in keeping with sources.
His subsequent court docket listening to is ready for Dec. 30.
