{"id":2668,"date":"2025-10-15T00:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2668\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:29:08","slug":"career-criminal-recently-cut-loose-by-judge-busted-in-unprovoked-slashing-of-stranger-outside-nyc-subway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2668\/","title":{"rendered":"Career criminal recently cut loose by judge busted in unprovoked slashing of stranger outside NYC subway station"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unhinged slasher who randomly attacked a stranger<\/a> outside a Manhattan subway station was free to walk on the streets despite a separate transit knife attack, officials said \u2013 as his disfigured victim raged the lax criminal justice system nearly got him killed.<\/p>\n

Ex-con Demitri Marshall, 32, was nabbed several hours after he cut the 27-year-old man across his face without warning outside the East Broadway train station, cops said.<\/p>\n

It was just the latest transit attack from the unhinged repeat offender, who was arrested for slashing a stranger on board a Bronx train last month \u2013 but was cut loose on supervised release in court. <\/p>\n

Demitri Marshall has seven prior arrests, including one from an August unprovoked subway slashing in the Bronx, cops said. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

His latest victim, who only provided his first name, needed seven stitches for a gash across his top lip and nose \u2013 but lamented that the seasoned perp could have taken his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s wrong what the city of New York [did],\u201d Fernando, who is originally from Ecuador and works as a painter, told The Post by phone in Spanish. \u201cHe\u2019s a criminal who got released by a judge and he could\u2019ve killed me. I don\u2019t know why the justice system lets him go free.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fernando said he had just gotten off the train on his way home from work and was waiting to cross the street when the blade-wielding man ambushed him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI came out behind him, but I didn\u2019t pay any attention to him,\u201d the victim said. \u201cI stopped on the corner, on the street. I couldn\u2019t cross because the light was red, so I looked to the left and to the right, and I felt like a blow to my face. He grabbed me, and I was going to fight him but then I saw all the blood.<\/p>\n

Marshall was ordered held without bail in connection to the latest slashing. William Miller<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t say anything. I was in shock,\u201d he added. \u201cI didn\u2019t do anything to him. I told the police, \u2018Thank God he didn\u2019t hit me in the neck or something. I could\u2019ve died.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The blood-soaked victim ran back down into the subway station, where he told on-duty cops what had happened, but they couldn\u2019t find the attacker, who had already fled the scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to be more vigilant,\u201d Fernando said of the sudden burst of violence. \u201cIt makes me sad because I didn\u2019t do anything wrong. Now look at what happened to me. It scares me to go outside. I could\u2019ve been killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marshall, of the Bronx, was busted around 5:30 p.m. about a half-mile from the scene and charged with first-degree assault, a felony, according to cops and prosecutors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marshall, 32, allegedly assaulted a 27-year-old man for no reason moments after he left the East Broadway subway station Monday morning, cops said. William Miller<\/p>\n

He pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on Rikers Island without bail during his Tuesday afternoon arraignment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The move to keep Marshall behind bars came about a month after he was granted supervised release in connection to a subway slashing in the Bronx, prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In that case, he allegedly knifed a 21-year-old man across the left side of his face for no reason on board a No. 6 train passing through the Zerega Avenue station around 11:45 p.m. Aug. 28, cops and prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The victim was taken to Jacobi Medical Center<\/a>, where he had been listed in stable condition, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marshall slashed Fernando outside of the East Broadway station on the Lower East Side. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

He was arrested on Sept. 15 and was charged with first-degree attempted assault, assault in the second and third degrees, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment, according to that criminal complaint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Judge Ralph L. Wolf granted Marshall supervised release \u2013 despite prosecutors\u2019 request for him to be held on $50,000 cash bail or $150,000 bond, the DA\u2019s Office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When asked for background on the judge\u2019s ruling, a spokesman for the state\u2019s Office of Court Administration said \u201cthe court system does not comment on individual bail determinations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important to note, however, that the vast majority of bail decisions turn on the court\u2019s discretionary weighing of a broad range of factors in order to make an individualized assessment of the defendant\u2019s risk of flight to avoid prosecution,\u201d spokesman Al Baker said. \u201cThat assessment involves due consideration of information and arguments presented by the prosecutor and defense counsel, as well as other materials submitted to the court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marshall had racked up seven busts before his latest unsettling attack. He had also been arrested back on Jan. 26 for allegedly punching a 27-year-old man \u2013 a stranger \u2013 on board an MTA bus at Allen and Grand streets on the Lower East Side<\/a>, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGet my sister\u2019s name out of your mouth,\u201d he snarled during the senseless attack, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fernando said he had just gotten off the train on his way home from work and was waiting to cross the street when the blade-wielding man ambushed him. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

The disposition of that case was not immediately known.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was also arrested for allegedly punching a 33-year-old man in the side of the head on the northbound F train platform at Second Avenue back in March, law enforcement sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That attack was ruled a hate crime \u2013 but he was still released with \u201cnon-monetary conditions\u201d during his arraignment, according to online court records.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marshall also served slightly over a year in state prison \u2013 from March of 2023 to June of 2024 \u2013 on a Manhattan robbery conviction, state Corrections records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was released on parole, which expired in February, according to the records.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His other busts, dating back to 2012, include raps for robbery, burglary and fare evasion, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marshall\u2019s next court appearance on the latest case is scheduled for Oct. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unhinged slasher who randomly attacked a stranger outside a Manhattan subway station was free to walk on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,303,358,57,9,56,63,65,64,362,129,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-2668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-lower-east-side","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-subway-slashings","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}