Subway Stabber Was On Violent Brooklyn Spree, Court Records Show

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — A Brooklyn man accused of puncturing a Brooklyn straphanger's lung with a screw driver while screaming "Black b----" in November was arrested for breaking one man's jaw and another man's cheekbone days later, court records show.

Aleksejs Saveljevs, 33, was handcuffed one week after he allegedly attacked 57-year-old Ann Marie Washington in the Church Avenue Q train station for two unrelated but similarly violent crimes, according to criminal complaints.

The Brooklyn man was arrested in Coney Island's 60th Precinct on Nov. 16, one day after police issued a $2,500 reward for the subway attacker's arrest and about a month before NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea told reporters said police were "not close" to making an arrest.

Saveljevs stands accused of breaking a man's cheekbone with an unknown object on Nov. 8, just a day before the subway attack, on East 11th Street at about 9 a.m., court records show.

The victim needed multiple stitches and staples in his face, records show.

Then three days after the Church Avenue attack, Saveljevs allegedly broke a man's jaw inside Coney Island Hospital on Ocean Parkway, court records show. Doctors had to wire the man's jaw shut and put him on a liquid diet after the attack.

Saveljevs's next court date on the Coney Island attack case was slated for Aug. 20, the same day prosecutors announced he was charged with attempting to murder Washington.

The Legal Aid Society, which represented Saveljevs in Brooklyn Criminal Court, declined to comment on the case.

The case spurred outrage in Brooklyn when elected officials said Washington walked home with a punctured lung even after emergency responders and police examined her.

Her family said Washington only found out she was wounded when she woke up the next morning in bloody sheets.