Vagrant who slashed MTA worker was on parole, has eerily similar transit attack on his rap sheet
The deranged nut charged with severely slashing an MTA worker at a Brooklyn subway station was on parole at the time of the attack — and has a long rap sheet that includes an eerily similar assault on a transit worker.Jonathan Davalos is charged with attempted murder, assault and menacing for repeatedly stabbing the 60-year-old who found him sleeping on a train at the Crown Heights-Utica Avenue station and woke him up.News that the 27-year-old was free to allegedly commit another knife attack shocked the victim of the 2021 Amsterdam Avenue slashing.“He got out? I’m about to have a panic attack,” said the 22-year-old woman about Davalos, only did three years and is on parole until 2028.
“He shouldn’t be out, no!”Davalos’ latest alleged victim, MTA worker Myran Pollack — who was just about to retire when he was stabbed — is now fighting for his life.MTA security officials told The Post that Davalos was allegedly still on top of Pollack when officers arrived on the scene and took the accused slasher into custody.He was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court and ordered held without bail on Wednesday.
“This defendant is accused of viciously attacking and seriously injuring a hardworking train operator who was simply doing his job,” Brooklkyn Distirct Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.“Keeping straphangers and transit workers safe is essential to the functioning of our city and a top priority for my office,” Gonzalez said.
“My thoughts are with Mr.Pollack and his family as he recovers from this senseless act of violence.”Davalos already had more than a half-dozen busts on his record, including another knife attack on an MTA worker who woke him up aboard a 6 train near the Brooklyn Bridge on Jan.
18, 2020.It was just the next year when Davalos would again commit a knifing — which t sent him to state prison for more than three years, until he was released from the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Westchester County in February this year.Me...