The father of the Brooklyn man charged with shoving a straphanger into an incoming 1 train Tuesday says his son was fine as recently as three weeks ago – but then began “acting weird.”
“Lately he’s been going through something, some mental issue,” Shamel Hawkins, 40, told The Post Wednesday as his son, Kamel Hawkins, was ordered held without bail at his arraignment on attempted murder charges in Manhattan Criminal Court.
“We think somebody put something in his weed,” the elder Hawkins said. “About three weeks ago he was all right and then he started acting weird. We wanted to get him help but he refused.”
Hawkins lived in the Whitman Houses public housing complex with his father and brother, his dad said, but he later moved to a shelter.