Man, 28, who beat three women to death on NYC subway system on Father’s Day charged with assault

A 28-year-old career criminal who allegedly punched three women in the NYC subway system on Father’s Day has been arrested and charged with three felonies.

Kemal Rideout appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday after police caught him at the corner of East 122nd Street and Second Avenue in East Harlem causally chewing on a bag of chips after being kicked off a bus for fare evasion.

Rideout has been accused of stabbing three women at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and 86th Street stations on Father’s Day.

The first victim, 19-year-old Bianchelly Diplan, was walking out of the 86th Street station on her way to Paris Baguette to pick up a cake when she felt the back of her leg cut so deeply that she needed 19 stitches because she’s one of many New Yorkers to experience random cuts.

“I noticed he was staring at me,” she told the New York Post. ‘He stared at me [from 125th Street] to 86th Street, so a good four or five minutes.

“I just felt a little weird, a little tense. He seemed a little absent. The way he walked, his body language was wrong. You know when you have that gut feeling? He seemed disabled.’

Rideout has been accused of stabbing three women at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and 86th Street stations on Father’s Day. He has been charged with three felony counts and is being held without bail at Rikers

The teen said she came face to face with her attacker after he cut her and that he “just stared at me and then walked away.”

‘I just started crying. I was shocked. He said nothing. He went back down the stairs and I could see him walking on the platform,” she told the outlet.

Another woman, 48, was slashed in the right leg at the same station on the platform before Rideout stormed back onto the downtown 4 train at around 4:15 p.m. Fifteen minutes later, Rideout would assault a 28-year-old victim at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station, police said.

The third victim was texting her boyfriend when she felt him hit her.

“A random guy walked past me and cut me — I don’t know what he was using — and casually walked away. My body was in shock. I didn’t feel the pain right away,” she told the Post.

My first instinct was to get a video of him, and then [I] looked down and saw the blood coming down.’

The unidentified victim managed to obtain a video from Rideout, which later helped police identify the attacker.

The first victim, Bianchelly Diplan, 19, (pictured) was walking out of the 86th Street station on her way to Paris Baguette to pick up a cake when she felt the back of her leg cut so deeply that she needed 19 stitches had

The victim was seen moving between train cars to catch a glimpse of him calmly moving through the moving train. After managing to get into another car, the victim stopped and the camera panned to her leg, which was dripping in copious amounts of blood as passengers stared in silence.

As the man exited the car, the female victim addressed the passengers and begged someone to “call 911” while holding back tears.

The massive cut required a tourniquet and she was rushed to Bellevue Hospital for treatment.

He slowly walked away. He walked casually. He didn’t run. He drew no attention to himself at all. You saw him go through the door. He was on the edge of the door. He looked back. He saw my daughter filming. He went in and closed the door,” the woman’s mother told the Post.

“Her mental state will never be the same again.”

Rideout was eventually apprehended at a bus stop in Harlem on Tuesday. Police spotted him after recognizing his shoes and he was carrying a bag with the outfit he wore on the train on Sunday.

Chief of Transit Michael Kemper said at a press conference that he was “proud” and “depressed” by the incident.

MTA CEO Janno Lieber praised the officers who caught Rideout, saying, “It’s a great comfort to our riders and everyone in our area to know that the NYPD has the backs of subway riders.”

The career criminal had four out-of-town priors for the trio of Sunday attacks.

“For violent assault in Norwich 2016, assault 3 again in Norwich in 2012, attempted rape in Varick, New York, and 2011 for criminal mischief in Riverhead,” Detective Chief James Essig said at a news conference.

Rideout is being held on Riker’ Island without bail.