The knife-wielding maniac who allegedly sliced two people in a pair of subway stabbings last week is a well-known recidivist with a violent past who’s been arrested dozens of times but continually ended up back on the streets, The Post learned.
Suspected slasher Jamar Banks racked up 54 arrests for a shooting, stabbings, fare-jumping and domestic violence as he exhibited a history of mental illness issues, sources said.
He was picked again up by the NYPD’s Warrant Squad Sunday and charged with assault and weapons possession in his latest violent attacks, police sources told The Post.
The suspect was psychologically evaluated at least once while in custody over the last four years, and cops flagged him four times as being a potentially suicidal, emotionally disturbed person, sources said.
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