A 69-YEAR-OLD woman was beaten so severely in an apparently random attack on a Brooklyn subway that she had to be put into a medically induced coma.
Gladys Castro was on a Manhattan-bound L train near the E. 105th St. stop in Canarsie about 9:50 p.m. on May 21 when an ex-con with a psychiatric history, Dhamma Etomi, 28, suddenly attacked her, according to her family and court records.
She screamed for help before the suspect knocked her out, a complaint against Etomi stated. At one point, Etomi unzipped his pants and knelt down in front of Castro’s face, the document added.
Doctors at Brookdale University Hospital told prosecutors that Castro, of Starrett City, suffered bleeding on her brain. She remains in a coma.
“She’s not doing well,” Castro’s brother, Sigfredo Castro, 64, said Wednesday. He declined further comment.
Etomi, originally from Nigeria, was charged with attempted murder and assault, records show. A judge remanded him at arraignment, and he was sent to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
He was charged in 2012 with assault as a hate crime after he confessed to beating a man with a cane in a bathroom at a Manhattan homeless shelter because he thought the man was gay, records show. He was released from jail to a mental hospital in Nov. 2013, a source said.
With Chelsia Rose Marcius
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