Parolee, 35, charged with shoving girlfriend, 29, onto NYC subway tracks where her feet was amputated as she screamed ‘I don’t deserve this’ told niece it was an accident: Suspect previously stabbed woman and her three-year-old daughter

The man who allegedly pushed his girlfriend onto the New York City subway tracks, severing both of her feet, is a schizophrenic who previously stabbed a woman and her three-year-old daughter.

Christian Valdez has been identified as the suspect, reportedly arguing with his 29-year-old boyfriend on the platform of Fulton Street station in the city’s Financial District on Saturday morning when things escalated.

He allegedly pushed the woman onto the tracks as a route 3 train approached, with the victim repeatedly shouting: ‘I don’t deserve this’ as she was trapped under a carriage.

Emergency responders arrived and rushed the victim to Bellevue Hospital, where she remains in critical condition after losing both of her feet as a result of the incident.

Valdez was arrested about 11 hours after the attack and is now charged with murder and assault, but initially fled the station and went to his niece’s home. NY daily newsand told her that the tragic incident was an accident.

Valdez — who has three previous assault arrests to his name — was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2020 for attempted assault in the Bronx.

However, on January 9, 2023, he was released on parole from an upstate New York prison.

After his arrest Saturday evening around 9:30 PM, the NYPD confirmed his involvement in a home invasion on September 13, 2017.

Valdez broke into the Bronx apartment of 37-year-old Jenny Aquino, stabbed the woman in the stomach with a glass bottle and then stabbed her three-year-old daughter Bella in the arm with a knife

He then threatened to throw the child off a third-floor fire escape ABC news.

Aquino said she knew Valdez from church and occasionally let him stay at her apartment, although they were not romantically involved.

The woman and her daughter were rescued by a Good Samaritan, who heard noise coming from the apartment and ran inside, attacking Valdez by throwing household items at him, including vases, before another neighbor could grab the daughter.

Aquino eventually filed a lawsuit against her building management for failing to provide proper security to prevent Valdez from breaking in and settled in 2023 for $225,000.

Valdez’s niece, who did not give her name, said her uncle ran to her apartment in nearby Newark, New Jersey, shortly after the stabbing.

“He said they had an argument and she fell, but he didn’t know how,” she said.

“They were on their way to a doctor’s appointment… They took the train together to an appointment and had an argument,” she said. A police source had also told the New York Post that they had been arguing before he pushed her.

However, Valdez said “I don’t know” when she asked what happened, adding, “My girlfriend was in an accident.”

He then called someone the niece said was a social worker or probation officer, and they convinced him to return to New York City.

She said her uncle had been dating the victim for two or three months and believes she knew he had suffered from schizophrenia for 18 years.

Although she had never met his girlfriend, she knew they were currently living together in a homeless shelter.

Whether it was an accident or not, his niece — who hopes the victim “gets better” — hopes Valdez can get the help he needs.

‘Christian has schizophrenia and needs special help. He needs mental health care,” she said, hoping his girlfriend “can forgive him because he is sick.”

She says he has spent time in hospitals in New York and New Jersey receiving treatment for his condition and believes a return to prison will only worsen his mental health, noting that he recently stopped taking his medications.

“They don’t get proper medical care in prison,” she added. ‘He needs medical attention. He needs help from the doctors.’

Due to the pushing incident, MTA had to shut off power to the railroad to gain access to the woman.

Train services were significantly disrupted for hours while police investigated the incident.

This latest incident comes just days after New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he would bring back baggage checks for subway passengers following a spike in crime.

Recent criminal activity on the trains has included a cellist being hit in the head by a stranger and a shooting that left one person dead and five others injured.

“We know people feel unsafe,” Adams, himself a former transit police officer, admitted at a news conference.

94 bag checking teams will be sent to 136 stations each week, although the exact locations are yet to be determined.

The mayor said he will bring back methods previously used in times of high suspicion.

‘We are reintroducing bag checks. There are several things we are reintroducing into the system,” Adams added, with the NYPD reportedly searching bags for weapons such as knives, box cutters, batons and guns.

The city is also reviewing technology to detect metal objects entering public transportation.

Screening teams will be able to check every passenger’s bags for weapons under the long-dormant policy.

These subway screening protocols were originally brought to the MTA after the 2005 London bombings.

However, it may bring back memories of the city’s stop-and-frisk policy, which was ended in 2014 after being deemed “unconstitutional.”

On Wednesday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that National Guard soldiers and state police will be deployed to conduct “random” bag checks, while the number of plainclothes patrol stations will be increased.