An unhinged ex-con stabbed two women during a bloody early-morning spree in Brooklyn early Tuesday, police said.
The accused stabber, identified by sources as Maurice Brister, was caught in the act knifing a 49-year-old woman outside NYCHA’s Farragut Houses near the Manhattan Bridge when cops arrived about 5:30 a.m., NYPD officials said.
Brister is a person of interest in a fatal shooting in the same area in 2021, a police sources said. He was a shooting victim in the same neighborhood last year, cops said.
Arriving officers tased Brister before taking him into custody on York St. near Gold St., police sources said. The knife used in the attack was recovered at the scene.
The woman he was attacking was stabbed in the back, stomach, neck and arm, police said. Medics rushed her to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in critical condition.
At the same time, cops responded to a report of an assault on Bridge St. and York St., which is within the same NYCHA complex. When they arrived, they found a woman in the lobby stabbed three times in the upper body and head.
The woman, believed to be in her 30s, refused to identify herself to police. She was taken to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in stable condition.
Police believe that Brister is responsible for both stabbings but a motive for the attacks wasn’t immediately disclosed. Charges against Brister were pending Tuesday.
Brister has been arrested 22 times and served two stints in prison, once for attempted assault in upstate Seneca County and one for a robbery conviction in Brooklyn, court records show.