A homeless man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing a grandfather to death at an Ozone Park subway station, just moments after he allegedly stabbed a motorist who was filling up at a Mobil gas station on North Conduit Avenue.
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A homeless Brooklyn man has been indicted by a Queens grand jury in a stabbing that left two men injured in Ozone Park on Wednesday evening, August 7.
Feruz Radjabov, 40, whose last known address was East 10th Street in Midwood, was arraigned Friday in Queens Supreme Court via video surveillance from his hospital bed at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens, where he is undergoing a mental health evaluation.
Prosecutors accuse Radjabov of two counts of attempted second-degree murder and other related offenses. He allegedly stabbed a driver at the gas station in Ozone Park and another man who was standing on a platform at a nearby subway station. Radjabov is also accused of assaulting a police officer. If convicted of the main charges, he faces up to 65 years in prison.
“Two New Yorkers – a subway commuter and a motorist – were stabbed to death in completely unprovoked acts of violence for which the defendant is charged,” said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.
According to the indictment, just after 5 p.m. on August 7, Radjabov approached a 25-year-old man who was filling up at the Mobil gas station at 100-03 North Conduit Avenue, stabbed him in the left shoulder and ran away. A few minutes later, Radjabov was seen a block away on the northbound platform of the Aqueduct-North Conduit Avenue A station at Cohancy Street. He approached a 67-year-old grandfather and allegedly stabbed him once in the neck before entering the subway tracks.
Minutes later, he was arrested by police from the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park after they found him hiding under the platform along the tracks heading toward Rockaway. Officers found a knife in his pocket.
Both victims were taken by EMS to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where the 67-year-old man underwent emergency surgery to repair his windpipe and carotid artery. He remains in the hospital, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. The 25-year-old victim was treated and released.
Radjabov was taken to the 106th Precinct for processing and headbutted an officer in the face, causing a laceration to the officer’s lip and a chipped tooth. For that attack, he was charged with assault on a peace or police officer, firefighter or emergency medical technician. He was also charged with multiple counts of assault and possession of a weapon for the unprovoked attacks on the two stabbing victims.
“The lives of these two men have been forever changed following this senseless attack and my office will vigorously pursue this case to ensure justice is served. I commend the NYPD for quickly arresting this defendant before anyone else was hurt.”
Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Edwin Novillo remanded Radjabov in custody and ordered him to appear in court on September 17.
