Ivory Tower Journalism
2023-06-28 07:34:59 UTC
Chilling video footage obtained by The Post captures a Manhattan subway-
slash victim screaming in agony after the random attack and pleading for
help as other riders apparently just go about their business.
Pull the emergency brake! Pull the emergency brake! the 28-year-old
victim can be heard sobbing. Yo! Yo!
The ailing straphanger actually hobbled after her attacker through the
train car while shooting video of him on her phone footage that cops
said they used to help nail him.
The creep can be seen strolling off into the next car as commuters stare
at his distraught victim.
At one point, the victim, whose name is being withheld by The Post, pans
down to show her sandal caked in blood.
Yo! Somebody call 911! Somebody call 911! she screams.
The victim was attacked around 4:30 p.m. Sunday on a southbound No. 4
train as it neared the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station in what was one
of three unprovoked slashing attacks in fewer than 20 minutes.
I was on the train, texting my boyfriend, the victim told ABC7-News.
Some random guy walked past me and sliced me I dont know what he used
and nonchalantly walked away. My body was in shock. I didnt feel the
pain right away.
My first instinct was to get a video of him, and then [I] looked down and
saw the blood coming down.
Other video shows someone wearing white shoes standing in front of the
wounded woman and then appearing to walk past her although its not
clear if it is her attacker.
Police on Tuesday busted alleged serial slasher Kemal Rideout, 28, and
charged him with three counts of felony assault on three different women
Sunday, including the victim who shot the video after she was slashed.
Rideout was ordered held without bail at his arraignment in Manhattan
Criminal Court on Wednesday.
She is a hero, the womans mother told The Post on Wednesday. She
picked herself up. She did good. She got up and dragged herself through
the train with her wounds and got a shot of him.
He was walking away slowly, she said. He was walking nonchalantly. He
didnt run. He brought no attention to himself at all. You could see him
going through the door. He was at the tip of the door. He looked back. He
saw my daughter filming. He went through and shut the door.
Her mental state will never be the same, she added. She will always be
looking behind her back. I need her to see a therapist. Her mental state
is not good. She has to speak about it.
Rideout has five prior busts in the state dating to 2008 one of them in
the Big Apple including for attempted rape, assault, criminal mischief
and forcible touching, and has a history of mental illness.
In at least four of those cases, including the attempted rape and forcible
touching raps in upstate New York, he was able to plead not responsible
by reason of mental disease or defect, authorities said.
On Sunday, Rideout allegedly first attacked Bianchelly Diplan, 19, at the
86th Street and Lexington Avenue station on the Upper East Side around
4:15 p.m., then a second woman at the station before hopping back on the
train.
Diplan told The Post this week she was walking up the stairs at the
station to pick up a Fathers Day cake for her dad when the creep came up
behind her and slashed her leg.
I didnt know he was behind me on the stairs, she said. I felt the cut.
It felt like somebody cut me deeply. I looked back at him, and he just
stared at me, then walked way. I just started crying.
Diplan said she needed 19 stitches to close the gash.
Police said the suspect also cut a second woman with what appeared to be a
piece of glass at the uptown station a wound that required a staggering
48 stitches.
But the downtown victim was the most seriously injured and required a
tourniquet to close the gash before she was rushed to Bellevue Hospital,
where she was treated for the wound and later released.
Shocking photos provided by her family show the severity of the injury,
with the cut seeming to go down to the bone and requiring multiple
stitches to seal.
Rideout was busted Tuesday after he was kicked off an MTA bus in Harlem
for trying to beat the fare.
Eagle-eyed cops spotted him on a street corner casually munching on a
bag of chips, police said.
Rideout was wearing the same shoes that the slashing suspect had on in
videos taken from the slashing scenes, authorities said in court papers.
He also had a bag that contained the same t-shirt and pants, the documents
state.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/chilling-video-captures-nyc-subway-slash-
victim-screaming-in-agony-seconds-after-attack/
slash victim screaming in agony after the random attack and pleading for
help as other riders apparently just go about their business.
Pull the emergency brake! Pull the emergency brake! the 28-year-old
victim can be heard sobbing. Yo! Yo!
The ailing straphanger actually hobbled after her attacker through the
train car while shooting video of him on her phone footage that cops
said they used to help nail him.
The creep can be seen strolling off into the next car as commuters stare
at his distraught victim.
At one point, the victim, whose name is being withheld by The Post, pans
down to show her sandal caked in blood.
Yo! Somebody call 911! Somebody call 911! she screams.
The victim was attacked around 4:30 p.m. Sunday on a southbound No. 4
train as it neared the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station in what was one
of three unprovoked slashing attacks in fewer than 20 minutes.
I was on the train, texting my boyfriend, the victim told ABC7-News.
Some random guy walked past me and sliced me I dont know what he used
and nonchalantly walked away. My body was in shock. I didnt feel the
pain right away.
My first instinct was to get a video of him, and then [I] looked down and
saw the blood coming down.
Other video shows someone wearing white shoes standing in front of the
wounded woman and then appearing to walk past her although its not
clear if it is her attacker.
Police on Tuesday busted alleged serial slasher Kemal Rideout, 28, and
charged him with three counts of felony assault on three different women
Sunday, including the victim who shot the video after she was slashed.
Rideout was ordered held without bail at his arraignment in Manhattan
Criminal Court on Wednesday.
She is a hero, the womans mother told The Post on Wednesday. She
picked herself up. She did good. She got up and dragged herself through
the train with her wounds and got a shot of him.
He was walking away slowly, she said. He was walking nonchalantly. He
didnt run. He brought no attention to himself at all. You could see him
going through the door. He was at the tip of the door. He looked back. He
saw my daughter filming. He went through and shut the door.
Her mental state will never be the same, she added. She will always be
looking behind her back. I need her to see a therapist. Her mental state
is not good. She has to speak about it.
Rideout has five prior busts in the state dating to 2008 one of them in
the Big Apple including for attempted rape, assault, criminal mischief
and forcible touching, and has a history of mental illness.
In at least four of those cases, including the attempted rape and forcible
touching raps in upstate New York, he was able to plead not responsible
by reason of mental disease or defect, authorities said.
On Sunday, Rideout allegedly first attacked Bianchelly Diplan, 19, at the
86th Street and Lexington Avenue station on the Upper East Side around
4:15 p.m., then a second woman at the station before hopping back on the
train.
Diplan told The Post this week she was walking up the stairs at the
station to pick up a Fathers Day cake for her dad when the creep came up
behind her and slashed her leg.
I didnt know he was behind me on the stairs, she said. I felt the cut.
It felt like somebody cut me deeply. I looked back at him, and he just
stared at me, then walked way. I just started crying.
Diplan said she needed 19 stitches to close the gash.
Police said the suspect also cut a second woman with what appeared to be a
piece of glass at the uptown station a wound that required a staggering
48 stitches.
But the downtown victim was the most seriously injured and required a
tourniquet to close the gash before she was rushed to Bellevue Hospital,
where she was treated for the wound and later released.
Shocking photos provided by her family show the severity of the injury,
with the cut seeming to go down to the bone and requiring multiple
stitches to seal.
Rideout was busted Tuesday after he was kicked off an MTA bus in Harlem
for trying to beat the fare.
Eagle-eyed cops spotted him on a street corner casually munching on a
bag of chips, police said.
Rideout was wearing the same shoes that the slashing suspect had on in
videos taken from the slashing scenes, authorities said in court papers.
He also had a bag that contained the same t-shirt and pants, the documents
state.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/chilling-video-captures-nyc-subway-slash-
victim-screaming-in-agony-seconds-after-attack/