Shouting maniac hurls bottle at woman, 67, in random subway assault as victim rails about attackers lengthy rap sheet

A shouting maniac hurled a bottle at a 67-year-old woman in a Midtown subway station Monday – as the victim railed over the attacker being loose despite a lengthy rap sheet.Vandell Williams, 30, — who has nearly a dozen prior busts and multiple documented mental health incidents — attacked Milena Ruiz for no apparent reason on the stairs headed to the 5 train at the Grand Central-42nd Street, sources and the victim said.Williams has 11 prior arrests — at least two of them related to crimes at the very same subway station, police said.He also has an extensive history as an “emotionally disturbed person,” with 13 such incidents on his record, according to sources. “I don’t understand how people like that, they keep releasing them,” Ruiz said Tuesday.The troubling incident unfolded around 4 p.m.

while Ruiz was with her home care attendant and speaking in Spanish — and the victim wonders if the language is what set off the attacker, she said.“I didn’t meet that guy ever in my life before,” she said.“I don’t say nothing to him.

I was walking, talking in Spanish.”Ruiz said she never saw the bottle coming.“The lady who take care of me, we held each other because I didn’t want to fall,” she said.“We heard a sound like [a] pop.

But it was on my head where the bottle hit me.A few guys start yelling at him to stop, because he started like walking very fast, trying to get out of the station.“I followed him because I saw lot of police before….everything happened, and I started yelling, ‘Police, police! Please help me! He hit me!’ And then I saw two police.

They held him.”Williams started “yelling a lot of things” at Ruiz, but she did not pay attention as she clasped her head in pain.“And then more police start coming,” Ruiz recalled.

“They told me that I was going to be safe and don’t worry [about] him.They took him and they took me too to like a little police station that they have there in Grand Central Stat...