Posted by NY trials on 7/07/06

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Guy gets attacked with a chainsaw and vows to sue ... the
Transit Authority!! The lowlife scum have ruined the name
of trial lawyers!

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Subway sawing psycho

'I'm dying! He killed me!' yells victim during savage
attack

BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA, RICH SCHAPIRO, PETE DONOHUE and
ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS


Police take power saws used in attack out of garbage can
at 110th St. subway station.


Toy stuffed ape allegedly carried by power saw suspect is
retrieved on subway platform.

A maniacal ex-con randomly carved up a 64-year-old man
with two power saws in a Manhattan subway station early
yesterday - moments after stealing the tools from a
construction crew, police and witnesses said.

"He stabbed me in the heart! Help me!" postal worker
Michael Steinberg screamed as his 6-foot-tall attacker
stood over him, madly revving the black-and-yellow
cordless saws.

"I'm dying! He killed me!" Steinberg gasped before the
silent, blood-splattered psycho stole $200 and several
credit cards from his pockets and fled from the 110th St.
station, witnesses told the Daily News.

In the intensive care unit at St. Luke's Hospital several
hours after the ghastly 3:22 a.m. attack, Steinberg
said, "I was sure, I was positive, I was a dead man."

Steinberg said no one in the subway station attempted to
help him. "That's what upsets me more than anything else,"
he told The News.

Cops arrested accused madman Tareyton Williams at 5:40
a.m. after he allegedly slugged Oliver Vaquer, 29, who was
walking his dog with his pregnant wife on W. 86th St. near
West End Ave.

"He was big, all muscles, and he had a crazy blank look in
his eyes, but I just thought he was going to ask for
money," said Vaquer, a commercial voice-over artist.

"The next thing I knew he punched me as hard as he could,
and I fell on a newspaper box."

As Vaquer's wife screamed for help, he said, Williams hit
him in the face again and on the arm, then walked away.

"It was the craziest thing," Vaquer said. "Not a word from
him, nothing. He was either on drugs or didn't take the
ones he should have, but we realize now how much worse it
could have been."

The suspect, a 33-year-old convicted drug dealer, was
cradling a stuffed toy gorilla shortly after 3 a.m. when
he entered the 110th St. station in Morningside Heights,
witnesses said.

Construction workers from Five Star Electric Corp. were
replacing a sound system when Williams allegedly strolled
onto the southbound No. 1 train platform, where he dropped
the 2-foot-tall toy.

After urinating into an empty bottle and tossing it into a
garbage can, Williams suddenly ran toward the workers,
witnesses said.

"He picked up our tools and started chasing us. He just
had a dumb look on his face. He seemed deranged," said one
worker. "He didn't say a word. Nobody knew how to react.
Everyone ran in the opposite direction."

Williams allegedly slammed one of the saws against a
random passenger on the platform, but didn't cut him.

Then Steinberg, who was on his way to work at Manhattan's
14th St. Post Office, came face-to-face with the madman.

Revving the 8-pound, battery-powered saws, Williams
allegedly pounced.

"It looked like an X-Men movie," said Isaac Prescot, 53,
who saw the attack and tried to comfort Steinberg before
paramedics and cops arrived.

Cops recovered the saws from a trash bin outside the
station, along with Steinberg's wallet. Williams, who had
been released from prison last February after serving
three years on a drug conviction, was awaiting arraignment
last night on attempted murder, robbery and weapons
charges. He muttered, "No, no, no," as he was led off to
Central Booking early this morning.

Steinberg - whose lung was punctured - said he was
outraged that Williams was able to steal the saws simply
by reaching behind a roped-off area on the subway
platform. Steinberg vowed to sue the Transit Authority,
but TA spokesman Paul Fleuranges defended the contractors.

"It's an unfortunate incident," he said. "We hope the
customer recovers, but the contractors appear to have
taken proper precautions by putting their tools in an area
cordoned off from passengers."

Re: NYer attacked by crazed man with chainsaw - vows suit, 7/13/06, by John J Dalesandro.

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