Homeless parolee convicted of subway shove a decade ago arrested for another unprovoked transit attack on 28-year-old woman: cops

A deranged homeless man on parole after serving time for attempted murder — for shoving a transgender woman onto subway tracks a decade ago — assaulted another straphanger in an unprovoked attack within the transit system on Sunday, according to cops.The suspect, 42-year-old Rolan Reid, asked a woman to swipe him into a Manhattan station with her MetroCard on the mezzanine level of the 14th Street B/D/F station Sunday at 2:45 p.m., police and sources said. When she refused, Reid struck her with a metal rod and then punched her in the arm, according to law enforcement sources.The 28-year-old victim sustained a laceration in the unprovoked attack, the NYPD said.She was taken to Bellevue Hospital by paramedics and was listed in stable condition. Officers from Transit District Two in the Sixth Precinct arrested the suspect at the station, cops said.

Reid was charged with one count of assault to cause physical injury with a weapon, possession of a forged instrument – sources said he had 14 bent MetroCards in his possession – and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.Reid was on parole until March 2028 after he was convicted of another subway assault, which investigators designated a hate crime. On June 5, 2015, Reid confronted a transgender woman on the southbound No.

6 platform at the Bleecker/Lafayette Street station at 9 a.m., police said.He was ranting when he approached the victim. “What are you looking at?” he screamed at the woman, also 28.Then he threw a plastic bottle he had just fished out of a trash can at her and charged.He shoved her onto the tracks and started hurling anti-transgender comments at her as she desperately tried to climb out, according to cops and prosecutors.Police obtained security footage of Reid rummaging in a nearby trash can just moments before he threw the plastic bottle at the victim.Other riders rushed to the victim’s aid and lifted her off the tracks.

She was taken to Bellevue Hospital where she was treate...