NYC career criminal slashes man after he was freed for a prior attack

FIRST ON FOX: A violent profession legal allegedly slashed a stranger within the face on the subway Sunday after he was launched with out bail for the same assault on a lady in Brooklyn, Fox Information Digital has realized.

Brendan Dowling, 40, allegedly walked as much as a 41-year-old man sitting on the J prepare and sliced open his face at about 8:30 a.m. March 6, because the subway automobile neared the Decrease East Aspect station.

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It was Dowling’s sixth arrest since he was launched with out bail in October after pleading responsible to tried assault for slashing a lady within the head in Dec. 2020 in downtown Brooklyn, in keeping with police and prosecutors.

 It wasn’t instantly clear why he was sprung from jail on the Brooklyn case, however he faces a compulsory minimal of three ½ years in jail when he is sentenced, courtroom data present. 

At Dowling’s arraignment Monday in Manhattan legal courtroom, he was ordered held on $50,000 money over $150,000 bond on costs of first-degree tried assault and second-degree assault.

Manhattan prosecutors stated they had been probing whether or not the slashing was motivated by anti-Asian bias. It was the most recent in a string of vicious assaults on straphangers. 

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Transit crimes surged 184% from Feb. 28 to March 6 in comparison with the identical interval in 2021, in keeping with newly launched knowledge from New York Police Division. Within the prior week, subway crime had surged 205% in comparison with the identical interval in 2021. 

Fox Information Digital was the primary to report that anti-Asian hate crime complaints had skyrocketed by a staggering 343% from 2020 to 2021.

One other man, Denzel Hodge, was nabbed March 4 in Brooklyn and held with out bail for allegedly stabbing two subway riders in separate incidents and assaulting a 3rd individual.

He’s accused of plunging a knife into the again of a 77-year-old girl at about 8:10 a.m. March 1 in Cypress Hills Brooklyn in an unprovoked assault. Final month, he allegedly punched a 20-year-old girl within the head then stabbed her repeatedly within the abdomen at a distinct Brooklyn subway station.

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Final weekend no less than seven straphangers had been assaulted, together with a person who narrowly escaped an assailant swinging an ax, in keeping with the New York Put up.

The spike in subway violence comes after Mayor Eric Adams launched a program on Feb. 21 to take away the mentally in poor health and homeless from the transit system and join them with providers.

Throughout a press convention saying the Subway Security Plan, he acknowledged that many New Yorkers not really feel secure on the subway.

“We’re going to be sure that worry just isn’t New York’s actuality,” Adams stated.

Attorneys for Dowling and Hodge did not instantly return requests for remark.