A convicted child rapist on parole slashed his ex-girlfriend and then shoved her onto Manhattan subway tracks in front of her teenage daughters, prosecutors charged Thursday.
Michael Blount, 29, grabbed the 37-year-old victim’s hair and attempted to slit her throat as she waited for an A train at the 125th Street station around 11 p.m. on Nov. 5, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The victim attempted to defend herself by preventing the attacker from reaching her neck as he repeatedly slashed her face with a razor blade, according to prosecutors.
Blount allegedly shoved the woman onto the tracks, feet away from her daughters, who were able to pull their mother back onto the platform just 2 minutes before the next train arrived, according to the district attorney’s office.
The sicko fled and evaded police for several weeks, calling, texting, and harassing the victim and her daughters, prosecutors said.
He was finally apprehended on December 28 and indicted on Wednesday on attempted murder and other charges.
“As alleged, Michael Blount brutally slashed his ex-girlfriend before pushing her onto the train tracks in front of her teenage daughters,” said District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
“Despite what must have been a terrifying attack, one of her daughters was able to pull her mother from the tracks, likely saving her life.”
Blount had harassed his ex-girlfriend and her children at a Harlem deli just before the terrifying attack.
According to court documents, Blount repeatedly called his ex-girlfriend and her family at a Harlem deli prior to the attack.
She ignored him and left the store with her daughters, but Blount followed them down the steps to the A-train station, prosecutors said.
He then went back to the deli and purchased a single razor blade before returning to the subway and attempting to kill the victim, according to the district attorney’s office.
According to prosecutors, a bystander called a cab for the woman and her daughters, who were taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital to treat her injuries, which required plastic surgery.
Blount is a convicted sex criminal and a registered “sexually violent offender,” according to state records.
He was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl — a stranger — in Brooklyn in 2013 and sentenced to seven years in prison, according to state Department of Corrections records.
Blount was also charged with robbery and was released in 2020, with parole until 2025.
He pleaded not guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday and was ordered held without bail.
