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NYC man sentenced to 16 years to life for slashing ex-girlfriend on subway platform
By Priscilla DeGregory,
2023-05-11
A Manhattan man was sentenced to 16 years-to-life in prison Thursday for repeatedly slashing his ex-girlfriend on a subway platform — leaving her with cuts to her face, neck and back that required surgery.
Billy Hernandez, 50, admitted to meeting his estranged flame at the Fulton Street subway station on June 21, 2022 so she could return his clothes to him — and then came at her with a blade when she began to walk away, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.
Hernandez grabbed the 50-year-old woman by the shoulder and slashed her neck, continuing the assault as she unsuccessfully tried to escape, prosecutors said.
The creep pleaded guilty to attempted assault on March 30 in connection to the attack. He also copped to disorderly conduct and attempted assault in two other cases — including groping the butt of a receptionist at a substance abuse center that he went to the same day as the slashing, and punching an acquaintance in the face and running off with their phone days earlier.
Additionally, Hernandez pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a weapon for squeezing off shots during a February 2022 firefight in Two Bridges, where he lived with his parents, prosecutors said.
“Billy Hernandez committed a series of violent crimes, including a slashing that left his ex-girlfriend with extensive scarring and horrified rush hour commuters in one of our city’s busiest transit hubs,” District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement. “Today, he was held accountable for this disturbing act of targeted violence, and our thoughts are with the victim as she recovers.”
Hernandez — who was notably arrested in the slashing while wearing Kellogg’s “Apple Jacks” underwear — had already served two stints in prison and was on lifetime parole and out on bail in a gun case at the time.
Lawyers for Hernandez didn’t return a request for comment.
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