Sentenced: Man With Rap Sheet Arrested For Horrifying Hammer Attack In Queens Subway

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The lunatic suspected of bludgeoning a “hero’’ city health worker with a hammer in a Queens subway station was arrested Sunday, police said.

William Blount, 57, is facing charges of attempted murder, robbery and assault for the brutal Thursday evening attack that critically wounded victim Nina Rothschild, 57, at the Queens Plaza E, M and R station.

The attack was denounced by the Mayor Eric Adams, who said Friday that “a woman taking the train should not be struck in the head with a hammer.”

Rothschild was headed home from her job as a research scientist with the New York City Health Department when she was attacked at around 11:20 p.m.

Blount has a half-dozen prior arrests — including on charges of robbery and criminal possession of a controlled substance, sources said.

Records show he served time in the late 1980s for attempted criminal sale of a controlled substance.

Footage shows Blount allegedly creeping up behind her on the stairs and kicking her in what seemed like an attempt to make her fall. He then hit the scientist several times in the head, fracturing her skull, and ran off with her pocketbook, cops said.

Blount allegedly stole two cellphones, debit cards, credit cards and an unknown amount of money from Rothschild, according to police. The victim was taken to Weill Cornell Medical in critical condition.

“From what she told me on the phone, she was just walking down the steps to get into the subway on the way home from work when she was attacked by somebody from behind,” said her brother, Gerson Rothschild, a scientist at Columbia University, to ABC-TV.

“She kept screaming, ‘Stop! Stop!’ but the person either wouldn’t stop,” the brother added.

On Sunday evening, Rothschild welcomed the news of Blount’s arrest.

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Surveillance footage from outside the station in Queens Plaza, in Long Island City, showed a man, reported to be Blount, walking with a cane as he approached Rothschild, as she carefully walked down the stairs to the subway platform on Thursday at 11.22 pm.

Blount reportedly began by kicking her in the back and attempting to knock her over, but when Rothschild stays on her feet and appears to try and slowly flee, he pulls out a hammer, according to authorities.

Police said he then proceeded to bash her in the head 13 times while she struggled, with the final hit knocking her over.

Man arrested for NYC transit attack, smashes woman in head with HAMMER

William Blount, 57, was escorted out of Transit District 20 after being arrested Sunday for the hammer attack of Dr. Nina Rothschild at the Queens Plaza subway station.

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A maniac charged in a vicious subway hammer attack on a city health department worker is facing up to 25 years behind bars after being convicted by a Queens jury — with his victim telling The Post she’s still haunted by the senseless assault more than three years later.

“Maybe once a year I have a mild recurrence of one symptom, but other than that I am fine,” Nina Rothschild said Thursday, one day after 60-year-old William Blount was convicted of robbery and assault.

“But I do live with the memory of the attack. There isn’t a day that goes by when I don’t think of it,” she said. “I’m very happy and very relieved that it is behind me and that he will go away for a very long time.”

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Brute convicted in vicious subway hammer attack on NYC health department worker, faces 25 years

New York City health department worker Nina Rothschild said a day doesn’t go by that she doesn’t remember the vicious subway hammer attack by a deranged maniac.

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A deranged maniac who viciously beat a 60-year-old straphanger with a hammer 13 times in the head at a Queens subway station got the max sentence Thursday — as his battered victim slammed him in an emotional courtroom statement.

“Please ensure that he never sees the light of day outside the walls of a prison,” Nina Rothschild asked the judge during William Blount’s sentencing. “I don’t believe that he can be rehabilitated.

“His attack was brutal,” Rothschild said. “I encourage you to give him the maximum sentence with no opportunity for parole so that he never assaults anyone again.”

Judge John Zoll complied, sentencing Blount to the maximum prison sentence of 25 years to life for the senseless Feb. 24, 2022, attack.

“You’re three times her size and you kicked her back,” Zoll berated Blount, 60. “She didn’t fall right away so you kicked her again until she fell. You hit her in the head 13 times with a hammer.”

Rothschild was walking down the stairs at the Queens Plaza E,M and R station when Blount came up behind her, slammed her in the head with a hammer and threw her to the ground.

He kicked her repeatedly and took her bag, leaving her screaming and bloodied on the ground of the station.

NYC maniac who viciously attacked 60-year-old straphanger with a hammer learns his fate

A maniac who viciously attacked a 60-year-old straphanger with a hammer at a Queens subway station was hit with the max sentence Thursday.

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