BROOKLYN — A man turned himself in to police Thursday two days after telling another straphanger "I will chop you up" and cutting her hand with a machete on a 3 train, NYPD officials said.
Ras Alula Nagarit, 37, bumped into a 29-year-old woman and another woman at the Atlantic Avenue station about 9:30 p.m., sparking an argument that then spilled onto the train, an NYPD spokesman said.
On the train, Nagarit started ranting at the woman, who recorded the incident. "I will chop you up on this train" he told her, according to police officials.
When the train entered the Eastern Parkway station, Nagarit pulled out a cloth-covered machete and swung it at the woman's face, but missed, prosecutors said.
He got off the train, but then ran back to the train, again swinging the blade at her through the door, and slicing her hand, prosecutors said.
The woman was treated at an area hospital where doctors glued her wound shut, prosecutors said.
Nagarit, who lives in East Harlem, fled the scene but turned himself in to police Thursday, officials said. He was charged with assault, weapon possession and menacing, officials said.
He was held without bail and ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination, records show. An order of protection was also issued against him, records show.
He's due back in court on Feb. 26, records show.
He was also charged with a June 13, 2014 assault, records show. He was also previously arrested Sept. 30, 1996, for a robbery, police said. The details of those incidents were not immediately clear.
