Waheed Foster: Homeless man who battered woman in NYC subway station killed his grandmother in the '90s
QUEENS, NEW YORK: An unsettling security film reveals a lady being brutally attacked by a homeless guy, Waheed Foster, in a Queens subway station after ignoring him on a train. The 33-year-old victim sought to depart the northbound A train at the Howard Beach stop without interacting with the vagrant, the incident took place just after 5 am on September 20.
Foster, the 41-year-old culprit, who has been arrested twice before for assaulting women, pursued the victim off the train and attacked her close to the entrance to the metro. He was also arrested as a teen decades ago for killing his own grandmother. In the latest incident, Foster is seen shoving the lady into a wall before repeatedly hitting and kicking her as she lies on the ground, as seen in the video from New York Post. The footage shows another straphanger attempting to leap in to assist the woman at one point but Foster pushes him away.
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Police claimed that Foster's most recent victim is likely to recover after receiving treatment at Jamaica Hospital. Foster was taken into custody by NYPD soon after on several felony assault charges and is also facing two other criminal cases related to criminal damage and small-scale theft, according to court documents. Records indicate that following Foster's arraignment, Judge Denise Johnson ordered that he be detained without bond. Foster was detained in 2010 after allegedly stabbing a 50-year-old lady in the cheek and shoulder. He has been detained seven times in the past, including busts for theft, robbery, criminal mischief and screwdriver assault.
Waheed Foster's criminal past
Foster was just 14 years old when he was arrested for killing his grandmother in 1995. Foster has had a long criminal past. According to a report from New York Post, Foster assaulted his grandmother over a money dispute to which he later confessed. Ariela Mascha, the victim, had 20 broken ribs, a stab wound in the leg and a punctured liver, police had revealed at the time. Foster had been staying with his grandmother at the time of killing and later confessed to the murder when he was confronted by detectives, reported Newsday in 1995. He was sent to prison for his horrific actions, although the length of his sentence is not yet known.
Subway crimes in the city have been a concerning issue for the police due to their frequent occurrence in 2022. The random slashing of a 30-year-old Belgian tourist in September is one of the most recent instances of violence in the city metro. Even residents of New York were shocked by the blatant assault by a roving group of attackers at a Chelsea station. “It was 9 o’clock in the morning, It’s a very populated area. Criminals are getting bolder,” a female rider told New York Post at the time of the incident.
According to the most recent NYPD figures, transportation crime has increased by more than 43% so far this year compared to the same period in 2021, which brings the sickening assault into sharp contrast. The statistics reveal that during the same time period last year, 1,165 offenses were registered in the municipal transport system compared to 1,670 incidents this year. Even while NYPD brass argued last week that the press is to blame for the "perceptions" of danger, statistics show that straphangers are more likely to become victims now than they were before the outbreak.