The trash bag-carrying maniac who allegedly stabbed a teen during a rush-hour clash in a Manhattan subway station Thursday was charged with felony assault – as authorities reveal he was arrested twice previously for smashing strangers with glass bottles.
Kamil Hamoudi, 35, was caught ambling on the subway tracks carrying the plastic bag – a short time after he allegedly plunged a “sharp metal object” into a 19-year-old man’s leg on board an uptown L train at the First Avenue and East 14th Station around 8:10 a.m., according to a criminal complaint.
He fled into the subway tunnel after the attack, which left the victim bleeding from a deep puncture wound, the court doc said. The teen was hospitalized in stable condition.
Kamil Hamoudi, 35, was charged with felony assault in the Thursday rush hour attack. Robert Miller
The two men got into a dispute, but did not appear to have known each other, law enforcement sources said.
Hamoudi, of Brooklyn, was arrested and charged with second-degree assault, a felony, prosecutors said.
He was ordered held on $15,000 bail Friday arraignment, prosecutors said.
Hamoudi has two previous arrests from August and October of 2022 – both involving glass bottle attacks on strangers, with the earlier incident considered a hate crime, cops and sources said.
Hamoudi allegedly asked a woman, “Are you from Bangladesh?” before hitting her with the bottle just after 10 a.m. Aug. 30 on Fulton Street near Clinton Avenue in Clinton Hill, according to that criminal complaint.
The attack left the victim in “substantial pain,” the court doc said.
Hamoudi has two previous arrests from August and October of 2022 – both involving glass bottle attacks on strangers, cops and sources said. Robert Miller
Hamoudi will reappear in court on the Manhattan case Tuesday. Robert Miller
He was arrested on multiple charges, including second-degree assault as a hate crime, the complaint said.
But he ultimately pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of aggravated harassment in the second degree and was granted a conditional discharge on May 29, 2024, the district attorney’s office said.
In the October case, he allegedly struck a 42-year-old man with a glass bottle, also in Brooklyn, police said.
The disposition of that case was not immediately known.
Hamoudi will reappear in court in connection to the Manhattan arrest on Tuesday.