The daddy of the Brooklyn thug charged with shoving a straphanger into an incoming 1 practice Tuesday says his son was advantageous as lately as three weeks in the past – however then started “acting weird.”
“Lately he’s been going through something, some mental issue,” Shamel Hawkins, 40 instructed The Submit Wednesday as his son, Kamel Hawkins, was ordered held with out bail at his arraignment on tried homicide costs in Manhattan Felony Courtroom.
“We think somebody put something in his weed,” the elder Hawkins mentioned. “About three weeks ago he was alright and then he started acting weird. We wanted to get him help but he returned.”
Hawkins lived within the Whitman Homes public housing complicated along with his father and brother.
Kamel Hawkins, 23, was nabbed close to Columbus Circle on Tuesday, simply hours after police mentioned he shoved a straphanger onto Manhattan subway tracks in a horrifying random assault.
The 45-year-old sufferer is seen on disturbing video plunging into the trail of an incoming 1 practice on the 18th Avenue station – however miraculously survived with simply head accidents.
A felony criticism filed within the case early Wednesday mentioned the unidentified sufferer suffered 4 damaged ribs, a fractured cranium and a ruptured spleen.
Regulation enforcement sources mentioned the person was lucky to fall into the “trench” on the tracks beneath the practice throughout the 1:30 p.m. assault.
In the meantime, police charged Hawkins with tried homicide and assault.
Regulation enforcement sources mentioned the accused subway shover has a minimum of three prior busts, together with an assault on an NYPD co in Queens in June 2019, when he allegedly physique slammed the officer and left him with again accidents.
“Anyone who attacks a cop in full uniform is capable of doing far worse to defenseless civilians, NYPD Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry told The Post on Tuesday. “Every time the justice system drops the ball on an assault on a police officer, it puts every New Yorker in danger.”
Hawkins additionally has an open assault, harassment and weapons possession case in Brooklyn from October and has an earlier bust in 2020, sources mentioned.
