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, leaving both her feet severed, is a schizophrenic who previously stabbed a woman and her three-year-old daughter.

Christian Valdez has been identified as the suspect, allegedly arguing with his 29-year-old beau on the platform of Fulton Street sation in the Financial District area of the city on Saturday morning when things escalated. 

He allegedly shoved the woman onto the tracks as a 3 train approached, with the victim repeatedly screaming 'I don't deserve this' as she was left pinned under a carriage.

Emergency crews arrived and quickly rushed the victim to Bellevue Hospital where she is in a critical condition, having lost both of her feet due to the incident. 

Valdez was arrested about 11 hours after the attack and now faces charges of murder and felony assault but initially fled the station and went to his niece's home according to NY Daily News, telling her the tragic incident was an accident.

Christian Valdez, the man who allegedly pushed his girlfriend onto the New York City subway tracks, leaving both her feet severed, is a parolee who previously stabbed a woman and her then-3-year-old daughter

Valdez - who has three other prior assault arrests on his record - was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2020 on an attempted assault conviction in the Bronx.

However, on January 9, 2023, he was released from a New York State prison on parole. 

After his arrest Saturday night at around 9:30pm, the NYPD confirmed his involvement in a September 13, 2017, home invasion.

Valdez broke into 37-year-old Jenny Aquino's apartment in the Bronx, 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, according to ABC News.

Aquino said she knew Valdez from church and occasionally let him stay at her apartment, though 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 in, 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 stop Valdez from breaking in and settled for $225,000 in 2023.

In September 2017, he broke into an apartment in the Bronx, stabbed a woman and then tried to throw her daughter off a third-floor fire escape

The victim was allegedly shoved onto the tracks as a 3 train approached, hitting her as she allegedly screamed: 'I don't deserve this!' 

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

'He said they had a fight and she fell down but he didn't know how,' she said.

'They were on their way to a medical doctor appointment…Together they take a train to an appointment and they had an argument,' she said. A police source had also told the New York Post that they had quarreled before he pushed her.

However, Valdez said 'I don't know' when she asked what had happened, adding: 'My girlfriend had an accident.' 

He then called someone the niece said was either a social worker or a parole 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 that he's been living with schizophrenia for 18 years. 

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

Whether or not it was an accident, his niece - who hopes the victim 'gets better' - is hoping that Valdez can get the help he needs. 

Emergency crews arrived and quickly rushed the victim to Bellevue Hospital where she is in a critical condition, having lost both of her feet due to the incident 

The mayor said that he will be bringing back methods like bag checks that have been previously used in times of great suspicion

'Christian has schizophrenia and he needs special help. He needs mental health help,' she said and hoped his girlfriend can 'forgive him, because he is sick.'

She says that he's spent time in hospitals in New York and New Jersey getting treatment for his condition and believes that going back to jail will only worsen his mental health, noting that he'd recently stopped taking his medication.  

'In prison they don't have good medical help,' she added. 'He needs medical help. He needs help from the doctors.'

Due to the shoving incident, MTA had to cut power to the rail line in order to gain access to the woman. 

Train service was significantly impacted for hours while police investigated the incident. 

This latest incident comes just days after New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he would be bringing back bag checks for subway riders after a spike in crime. 

Recent criminal activity on the trains included a cellist who was bludgeoned over the head by a stranger and a shooting that killed one and injured five others. 

'We know people feel unsafe,' Adams, himself a former transit police officer, admitted during a press briefing.

Train service was also significantly impacted for hours while police investigated the incident

There will be 94 bag screening teams sent to 136 stations each week, though the exact locations will be determined.

The mayor said he will be bringing back methods that have been previously used in times of great suspicion.

'We are reinstituting bag checks. There are several things we are reinstituting in the system,' Adams added, with the NYPD reportedly searching bags for weapons such as knives, box cutters, clubs and guns.

The city is also reviewing technology to detect metal objects entering the transit system.

Screening teams will be able to check bags of any passenger for weapons under the policy that has long been dormant.

Those subway back-check protocols were originally brought to the MTA after the London bombings in 2005.

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 National Guard soldiers and State Police will be deployed to perform 'random' bag checks while the number of plainclothes cops patrolling stations will be increased.