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Dad of suspect charged with shoving straphanger into incoming subway train says son started acting ‘weird’ just recently​

By
Kevin Sheehan,

Kyle Schnitzer and

Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Published Jan. 1, 2025, 11:11 a.m. ET


The father of the Brooklyn man charged with shoving a straphanger into an incoming 1 train Tuesday says his son was fine as recently as three weeks ago – but then began “acting weird.”
“Lately he’s been going through something, some mental issue,” Shamel Hawkins, 40, told The Post Wednesday as his son, Kamel Hawkins, was ordered held without bail at his arraignment on attempted murder charges in Manhattan Criminal Court.
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Kamel Hawkins being arraigned on charges attempted murder in Manhattan Criminal Court, Wednesday, the first arraignment of the year.William Farrington
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Kamel Hawkins in court.William Farrington
“We think somebody put something in his weed,” the elder Hawkins said. “About three weeks ago he was all right and then he started acting weird. We wanted to get him help but he refused.”

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Hawkins lived in the Whitman Houses public housing complex with his father and brother, his dad said, but he later moved to a shelter.
Kamel Hawkins, 23, was nabbed near Columbus Circle on Tuesday, just hours after police said he shoved a straphanger onto Manhattan subway tracks in a horrifying random attack.
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According to police, the shove was a random attack.Obtained by the NY Post
The 45-year-old victim is seen on disturbing video plunging into the path of an incoming 1 train at the 18th Street station — but miraculously survived with just head injuries.
A criminal complaint filed in the case early Wednesday said the unidentified victim suffered four broken ribs, a fractured skull and a ruptured spleen.
Law enforcement sources said the man was fortunate to fall into the “trench” on the tracks beneath the train during the 1:30 p.m. attack.
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The attack occurred around 1:30 p.m.Paul Martinka
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Hawkins has had several run-ins with the NYPD.Obtained by the NY Post
Meanwhile, police charged Hawkins with attempted murder and assault.
Shamel Hawkins told The Post he didn’t know his troubled son had been accused of the subway shoving — and that he last saw him over the holidays.
“We saw him here [on] Christmas,” the elder Hawkins said. “I just saw him on Christmas right here. Oh no, I can’t believe this.
“He needs help. We love him but we can’t help him not when he refused the help we tried to connect him with. We try to help but if he don’t want it what can we do?
“He needs help. He needs mental help.”
Law enforcement sources said the accused subway shover has at least three prior busts, including an assault on an NYPD cop in Queens in June 2019, when he allegedly body-slammed the officer and left him with back injuries.
“Anyone who attacks a cop in full uniform is capable of doing far worse to defenseless civilians,” NYPD Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Hendry told The Post on Tuesday. “Every time the justice system drops the ball on an assault on a police officer, it puts every New Yorker in danger.”
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The victim was shoved into the path of a moving 1 train.Paul Martinka
Hawkins also has an open assault, harassment and weapons possession case in Brooklyn from October.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that they asked that Hawkins be held on bail in that case but he was instead referred to a court intervention program on Oct. 20.
According to the state court system, the “Problem-Solving Courts” program seeks to offer alternatives to incarceration.

 

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It's far too often the undiagnosed and untreated who pose the greatest danger.

 

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    boogiewoo__​

    He was so scared he hopped the train leaving out ‍
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      _moodygyal​

      @boogiewoo__ thought i was only one who peeped
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      aziza_s_luv_is_dope​

      @boogiewoo__ right both of them petrified

 

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There used to be Federally owned mental hospitals where kids like him could be sent for treatment or observation. Republican icon Ronnie Reagan closed them down as a waste of money when he was installing trickle down economics. The idea is that you'd have so much money you could pay for your own therapist . How’d that work out for y’all?

 

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As I put in another thread, death for these "mentally ill" motherfuckers is the only cure.

 

[Lexx Diamond]

There used to be Federally owned mental hospitals where kids like him could be sent for treatment or observation. Republican icon Ronnie Reagan closed them down as a waste of money when he was installing trickle down economics. The idea is that you'd have so much money you could pay for your own therapist . How’d that work out for y’all?

Great numbers of people from those closed institutions were given one way bus tickets to big cities across the country. I despise that devil Ronald Reagan and all his fans.