High-risk sex offender slashed NYC straphanger with box cutter in homophobic attack: cops
NY Post
A high-risk sex offender was busted this week for allegedly slashing another man with a box cutter after hurling homophobic comments at him aboard a Manhattan train, authorities said.
Milton Hamlin, 46 – who has 10 prior arrests – was nabbed Tuesday in connection to the 11 p.m. Friday attack on a 27-year-old man riding with a male partner on an uptown A train pulling into the 34th Street – Penn Station hub, police said.
Hamlin lunged at the victim’s face with the sharp weapon after lashing out at him because of his sexuality, cops said.
“They were acting like every other couple on the train,” Lieutenant John Russo of the NYPD’s Detective Bureau told reporters during a Tuesday briefing. “They were just together and Milton Hamlin, for whatever reason, took exception to that.”
The victim raised his hands to protect himself and was cut on his hand between his thumb and index finger, Russo said.
The victim’s gash required four stitches, according to Russo.
