A homeless man from Brooklyn was indicted by a Queens grand jury for a stabbing spree that left two men wounded in Ozone Park during the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 7.
Feruz Radjabov, 40, whose last known address was on East 10th Street in Midwood, was arraigned Friday in Queens Supreme Court via closed circuit video from his bedside at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens, where he is undergoing psychological evaluations.
The indictment charges Radjabov with two counts of attempted murder in the second degree and other related crimes for the random stabbings of a driver pumping gas 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 and faces up to 65 years in prison if convicted of the top charges.
“Two New Yorkers — a subway commuter and a motorist — were stabbed in completely unprovoked acts of violence allegedly by this defendant,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said.
According to the charges, at just after 5 p.m. on Aug. 7, Radjabov walked up to a 25-year-old man who was pumping gas at the Mobil station at 100-03 North Conduit Ave. and stabbed him in the left shoulder before running off. A few minutes later, Radjabov was seen a block away on the northbound platform of the Aqueduct-North Conduit Avenue A train station at Cohancy Street. He walked up to a 67-year-old grandfather and allegedly stabbed him once in the neck before entering the subway tracks.
He was apprehended minutes later by police from the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park after they found him hiding beneath the platform along the Rockaway-bound tracks. Officers recovered a knife from his pocket.
Both victims were rushed by EMS to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where the 67-year-old man underwent emergency surgery to repair his trachea and jugular vein. He remains hospitalized, according to the Queens DA’s office. The 25-year-old victim was treated and released.
Radjabov was taken to the 106th Precinct for processing and, while there, struck an officer in the face with his head, 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, fireman or an EMS professional. He was also charged with multiple assault counts and for possession of a weapon for the unprovoked attacks on the two stabbing victims.
“The lives of these two men are forever changed after this senseless attack and my office will aggressively prosecute this case to ensure that justice is achieved. I thank the NYPD for quickly apprehending this defendant before anyone else was hurt.”
Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Edwin Novillo remanded Radjabov into custody without bail and ordered him to return to court on Sep. 17.
