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Woman, 33, fears she will lose her eye after being knocked down by homeless man at JFK airport subway station on her way to work
- Elizabeth Gomes was on her way to work at JFK Airport at 5:15 a.m. on September 20 when she was attacked at the airport station.
- Waheed Foster, 41, tried to start a conversation with her but when she ignored him, he followed her and launched a ferocious attack
- Foster, who was arrested for the murder of his 82-year-old foster grandmother in a brutal beating at age 14, kicked and punched Gomes
- A man tried to come to Gomes’ aid, but Foster chased him away and continued the attack on Gomes: he was arrested as he tried to leave the station
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A woman arriving at the JFK airport for her security guard job may lose her eyesight in one eye after being brutally beaten at the airport subway station by a homeless career criminal.
Elizabeth Gomes, 33, arrived at Howard Beach station in Queens around 5:15 a.m. on Sept. 20.
Waheed Foster, 41, tried to strike up a conversation, but when she ignored him, he threw himself at her – dragged her to the ground and kicked and punched her.
Foster, who was arrested for the murder of his 82-year-old foster grandmother in a brutal beating at age 14, rained blows on Gomes as she crouched on the floor.
Elizabeth Gomes, 33, was attacked on September 20 as she got off the subway at JFK airport and went to work
Gomes is grabbed from behind by Waheed Foster, 41 – who she had ignored when he tried to talk to her as she got off the train
Foster, who beat his foster grandmother to death when he was 14, grabbed Gomes
Foster is seen throwing Gomes to the ground before the rain falls on her
Gomes is seen curling up in a ball to protect herself as Foster attacked her
Foster kicked her when she was on the floor and tried to protect herself
A man tried to come to Gomes’s aid, but Foster chased him away and continued to attack her.
He then walked away, leaving Gomes on the high tide.
He was arrested shortly afterwards.
It was later revealed that he had been arrested six years after the murder for stabbing his 21-year-old sister with a screwdriver.
In 2010, he was arrested for assaulting three workers at the Creedmore Psychiatric Center, where he was admitted.
He was on parole until November 2024 at the time of last week’s attack, ABC news reported.
‘Do you know how scared I am now? I was never one to be scared,” Gomes told the network.
“Honestly, I don’t see anything on my right side. And it just hurts.’
A man tried to save Gomes, but Foster chased him away
Foster then resumed attacking Gomes while she was on the ground
Foster ran away but was arrested shortly after
She said the doctors told her she could lose sight in her right eye, and she said she couldn’t sleep, with a pounding head.
“Every day is an incident on the subway,” she said. “What happened to all those police officers they said they’d be there to protect us? There is no one to be found. I do not understand.’
She said Foster muttered about Satan when he attacked her.
“He’s talking about the devil. He’s talking about a whole lot of nonsense,” Gomes said.
Foster has been charged with assault.
He has two other pending criminal cases against him, on charges of criminal mischief and petty theft.
According to the latest NYPD statistics, transit crime is up more than 43 percent so far this year compared to the same period in 2021.
In the period last year, 1,165 crimes were reported in the urban transport system, compared to 1,670 this year, the figures show.