Man (Frank Abrokwa) attacks woman in New York subway with human feces [Video Inside]

A homeless man with a lengthy arrest history has been charged with smearing a stranger with human feces as she waited for a subway train in the Bronx, in a revolting caught-on-camera attack, police said Monday.

Frank Abrokwa, 37, was arrested Monday and charged with the disturbing Feb. 21 attack.

The 43-year-old victim was minding her business while sitting on a bench on the Manhattan-bound platform at the Wakefield-241st St. No. 2 train station when she was attacked without warning about 5:15 p.m., cops said.

Video released Monday shows the assailant walking down the platform in her direction as he opens a plastic bag holding the excrement. Suddenly, he turns toward her and wallops her in the face with the bag.

The shocked woman dropped her cell phone to the ground as she tried to shield herself with her hands, the video shows. But the attacker, now standing behind the bench, rubbed the bag on her head two more times, smearing her further before running off, the video shows.

“I got out of work and was waiting for train, sat down for a moment,” the victim told ABC 7, speaking in Spanish through a translator. “All of a sudden, a man approaches me. He hits me in the face and throws a bag of feces. He spreads it all over my face, in my hair, without a motive, for no reason.”

“It happened so quickly, I didn’t even realize,” she added. “Once he left, it sunk in what occurred.”

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Sources said Abrokwa has 44 past arrests, including three from January and February for which he was released without bail, cop sources said.

On Jan. 7, he attacked a 30-year-old stranger on a subway platform at 125th St. and Lenox Ave. He approached the man aggressively, yelling, “Hey! Hey!” as he repeatedly punched the man in the head, cops said.

On Feb. 5, police said, he walked up to a 53-year-old man, also a stranger, at the Greyhound station at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown and punched him in the cheek.[More New York] Man wanted for attacking seven women in Manhttan in two-hour anti-Asian assault spree »

And on Feb. 22, he grabbed screwdrivers and other items from a Bronx hardware store, then pointed a screwdriver at an employee and said, “Call the police,” cops said.

Abrokwa was arraigned on bail-ineligible misdemeanor charges in the first two cases, and though police initially charged him with robbery in the Bronx case, he was ultimately arraigned only on menacing, petit larceny and misdemeanor weapon possession charges, court records show.

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“The video speaks for itself and must have been as awful to experience as it is disgusting to watch,” said MTA spokesman David Steckel. “It’s another example of why we fully support efforts by the governor and mayor to deliver essential mental health services to those who need them.”

A similar unprovoked feces attack in 2016 led cops on a manhunt for a perpetrator who threw excrement at two women on the Upper East Side in a four-hour span. Cops arrested a suspect, Ekwan Hill, at a Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, homeless shelter. A judge later deemed Hill unfit to stand trial.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority last year saw an uptick of reports of feces on the subway. The No. 2 line where the woman was attacked last week was the third-poopiest subway line during the first five months of 2021, a Daily News analysis found.

The putrid smear in the Bronx was the latest in a crime uptick in recent months that transit officials say is keeping riders from returning to mass transit. Subway turnstiles clocked fewer than 3 million daily entries last week, and weekday ridership is about half what it was before the pandemic.

Source: nydailynews