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Unsafe Streets
New York City
Documenting the Impact of Homeless Addicts and the Severely Mentally Ill on the Community

MURDERS

Assaults

FEBRUARY 2022

Hatchet Attack

Robert Griffith, a homeless man, swung a hatchet at a 42-year-old man taking the subway home after having dinner with his girlfriend.

FEBRUARY 2022

Beating

An unidentified homeless man hit a 30-year-old woman in the face with a metal pole. She was taking the subway home from her job as chef.

FEBRUARY 2022

Hammer Attack: Repeat Offender

William Blount, a homeless man with multiple prior arrests for robbery, repeatedly hit a 57-year-old woman in the head with a hammer as she was entering a subway station. The victim was hospitalized with a fractured skull.

FEBRUARY 2022

Stabbing

An unidentified homeless man stabbed a 35-year-old man taking the train home from orchestra practice three times in the neck. The victim received stitches to close puncture wounds that narrowly missed a major artery.

FEBRUARY 2022

Stabbing

An unidentified homeless man stabbed a 19-year-old riding the train home from work in the eye with a pair of scissors. The victim required multiple surgeries and is permanently blind in his left eye.

FEBRUARY 2022

Stabbing: Repeat Offender

Lateef Coleman, a man with many previous arrests including as an emotionally disturbed person, repeatedly stabbed a 22-year-old man breakdancing on the train.

FEBRUARY 2022

Feces Attack: Repeat Offender

Frank Abrokwa, a homeless man with a history of assault, smeared human feces on the face and hair of a 43-year-old woman waiting for the train.

JANUARY 2022

Stabbing

An unidentified homeless man was masturbating outside Penn Station when a man out with his wife confronted him. The homeless man slashed the other man’s hand with a razor.

JANUARY 2022

Stabbing

An unidentified homeless man slashed a 17-year-old boy waiting for the train across the forehead with scissors.

JANUARY 2022

Beating

Mercel Jackson, a homeless man, repeatedly punched in the head a 67-year-old woman walking to the grocery store.

DECEMBER 2021

Stabbing

An unidentified homeless woman stabbed a 32-year-old man who was riding the train in the stomach.

DECEMBER 2021

Stabbing

A homeless man stabbed a man waiting outside a pizza shop twice in the stomach and stole his iPhone.

Sexual Assaults & Rapes

March 2022

Carl Phanor, a homeless man with previous arrests for assault, shoved a 39-year-old woman out jogging to the ground and then sexually assaulted her.

February 2022

An unidentified homeless man followed a 28-year-old woman home from the train station, grabbed her while masturbating, and punched her repeatedly.

January 2019

Craig Ellis, a homeless man with multiple previous arrests, grabbed a 68-year-old woman who had just stepped into an empty church. Ellis dragged the victim into a bathroom, punched her repeatedly, and raped her.

May 2020

Marlon Alvarez, a homeless man, climbed through a 15-year-old girl’s bedroom window as she slept, laid on top of her, and attempted to remove her clothes.

December 2020

Elijah Kelly, a homeless man, pretended to be delivering a package, forced his way into a 27-year-old woman’s apartment, strangled her until she lost consciousness, raped her, and robbed her.

April 2021

Kelvin Williams, a homeless man, grabbed a 24-year-old woman walking down the sidewalk by the throat, pushed her against a wall and demanded money, then pushed her against parked car and groped her.

August 2021

Sinke Zewge, a homeless man with a history of rape and assault, choked a 40-year-old woman riding the train until she lost consciousness, and then tried to rape her.

December 2021

Tyrone Brown, a homeless man, knocked a 30-year-old woman leaving a subway station down onto the steps, put his hand under her skirt and yanked her tights down.

December 2021

Darryl Phelps, a homeless man, punched a 23-year-old woman walking home from work in the face, then raped her.

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