{"id":345020,"date":"2026-09-12T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345020\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:42:10","slug":"brooklyn-subway-slashing-victim-furious-to-learn-judge-released-attacker-without-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345020\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn subway slashing victim furious to learn judge released attacker without bail"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 44-year-old woman who was slashed<\/a> and kicked down a flight of stairs at a Brooklyn subway station by another commuter was furious to learn a judge had released her attacker without bail, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n

The victim was attacked at the Jay St-Metrotech subway station in Downtown Brooklyn at the tail end of rush hour around 9:20 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n

Jahlayah Blondel, 26, was arrested within an hour<\/a>, but Judge Masateru Marubashi ordered her released without bail despite a Brooklyn assistant district attorney requesting she be held on $10,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not right,\u201d said the victim, who wished to remain anonymous when reached by the Daily News Friday. \u201cShe should be in jail.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want people like that on the train,\u201d she said. \u201cNow I have to watch every day to see if she\u2019s on the train or not. What do you have to do to get bail, kill somebody?\u201d<\/p>\n

The victim, a housekeeper working at a hotel, was transferring from an R train to a C train on her way to work a 12-hour shift when she heard the other woman grumbling on the escalator behind her.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was bitching behind me. She said, \u2018I need to move,’\u201d the victim recounted.\u00a0\u201cI said, \u2018Take the stairs if you want to walk.’\u201d<\/p>\n

The dispute continued onto the mezzanine, where the victim said the suspect began chanting, \u201cCome outside, come outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m not going outside, I\u2019m going to work,\u201d the victim told The News.<\/p>\n

It was then that Blondell got in the victim\u2019s face, pulled a knife from her bag, and slashed her in the shoulder.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was a Taser,\u201d the victim said. \u201cShe stabbed me in the shoulder and poked me in the arm. I only saw her close it. It was a black and red knife.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blondel then kicked the victim in her abdomen, sending her plummeting down the stairs. The victim snapped photos of her attacker after the other woman followed her down.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I took her pictures, she said, \u2018Call the cops!\u2019 I said, \u2018Don\u2019t worry, I certainly will,’\u201d the victim recounted. \u201cThen she ran out of the other exit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medics took the victim to NYU Langone Health\u2014Cobble Hill, where her minor injury was treated.<\/p>\n

Blondel tossed away her knife as she ran off, police said. A short time later, she surrendered and was charged with second-degree assault, weapons possession and menacing.<\/p>\n

Police said the two women did not know each other but got into an argument as the victim was exiting the train. The quarrel continued up the escalator leading to the mezzanine.<\/p>\n

Police found an imitation pistol in Blondel\u2019s bag, but it was not used during the assault, officials said.<\/p>\n

This was Blondel\u2019s first arrest in New York City, officials said. She pleaded not guilty at her arraignment, and Judge Marubashi released her on non-monetary conditions, according to court papers.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s due back in court on Nov. 10.<\/p>\n

Felony assaults continue to be a problem<\/a> in the city\u2019s subway system \u2014 up 8%, to 441 from 410, even as the overall transit crime rate is down by 1%, officials said.<\/p>\n

Roughly half of all attacks on the rails are targeting a few select groups, NYPD Transit Chief Joseph Gulotta explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is driving them is assaults on police officers, assaults on MTA workers, and assaults on the elderly,\u201d Gulotta said at a press briefing at the NYPD\u2019s Manhattan HQ last week. \u201cWhen you put those three together, that\u2019s almost 50% of felony assaults.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s something we\u2019re really geared up on. It\u2019s something we take very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 44-year-old woman who was slashed and kicked down a flight of stairs at a Brooklyn subway station…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-345020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345020","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=345020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}