Before cops say he stabbed veteran MTA subway operator Myran Pollack and left him in a medically-induced coma last week, Jonathan Davalos attacked another subway conductor in a terrifying random attack, the victim told the Daily News.
Ruffin Cutler, 63, told the News how Davalos smashed his fists into his face on Jan. 18, 2020, while the unsuspecting train operator was giving an elderly woman directions.
Davalos was riding a downtown No. 6 train from Pelham Bay to the end of the line at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall, when the woman approached the conductor’s compartment and asked Cutler for help. Cutler opened the compartment door, and Davalos pounced.
“He jumped up and started pounding me. He hit me in the face, we started struggling till I was able to break free and pull the door shut,” Cutler recalled. “When he attacked me there was no conversation or nothing. No words were exchanged. I never seen him before in my life…. That guy’s a lunatic. I just thank God he didn’t have a knife when he attacked me. The outcome might have been different.”