Oft-arrested suspect Reggie Frank, who took his masturbating act to an R train, was stabbed by a Brooklyn woman with his own switchblade during a wild brawl which occurred on Friday on a subway.
NYDaily reported that Reggie Frank who targeted the tired woman as she headed home to Brooklyn after a long night at work, suffered wounds to the chest and arm while his 42-year-old victim escaped unharmed, although she was physically and emotionally wiped out after gaining the upper hand against her assailant.
“She’s been sleeping more than anything else,” the woman’s sister told the Daily News. “I am beside myself. How would it make you feel if that was your sibling?”
According to the police, the terrifying encounter began when the victim fell asleep aboard the Bay Ridge-bound subway — and awoke to find the 47-year-old man masturbating in front of her. It was gathered that after the woman screamed, Frank zapped her in the face with pepper spray and pulled the deadly folding knife from his pocket.
Frank, whose criminal history includes more than 20 prior arrests, including two within three weeks in 2015 for masturbating in front of women riding the subway trains, reportedly lunged at her with the blade when the train stopped at the 36th St. station in Sunset Park around 2 a.m, with the woman dodging the knife as she fought for her life.
The lady however suffered cuts to her hands that required 15 stitches, after she gained control of the weapon and stabbed Frank in the arm and chest.
However during Frank’s arraignment, his lawyer, William O. Fowlkes, assured the court that it was the woman, not his client, who was the aggressor.
“My client was attacked,” Fowlkes said. He speculated that the woman became startled by Frank, who works for a moving company, and became violent.
“Maybe she woke up and thought he was coming for her purse,” he said. “She saw a guy a little too close.”
The masturbating man was busted twice in 2006 for exposing himself in the Brooklyn subways — including one case where a witness fell to the tracks “in a state of uncontrollable laughter (and) suffered a fractured skull,” court documents said.
