Muslim high schooler tracks down homeless man who allegedly struck Jewish woman on Brooklyn subway

Rasa - A brave Muslim high school student helped cops bust a homeless sicko who randomly slammed his open hand into an Orthodox Jewish woman’s face on a Brooklyn subway train Tuesday night, officials said.

News ID: 426173

Date: 30 December 2016 - 21:05

RNA - Ahmed Khalifa, 17, of Midwood chased down Rayvon Jones, 31, after he decked the woman, who was simply reading a book on a Coney Island-bound Q train near the Newkirk Ave. station at about 7:50 p.m.

“It was a very hard slap, I almost could feel the slap,” Khalifa told the Daily News. “He was 6-foot-6, and a very big, big guy.”

The woman suffered a gash on her lip, swelling and bruising. She was taken to Methodist Hospital in stable condition.

Khalifa said he was riding the Q home after working a shift at the public library near Grand Army Plaza.

He had his headphones on when he heard a commotion. He looked up and saw Jones hit the woman, who was sitting in a seat.

The impact smashed her glasses, and she dropped to the floor and was unconscious for a few seconds, he said. Another woman rushed to her side to help her.

She came to and sobbed, “Why would he do this to me? Why would he do this to me?” as she desperately reached around to find her glasses.

Jones took off. Khalifa held the subway doors and yelled at the conductor to stay in the station and call for help.

“A lady told me to run after the guy,” he said. “It took me a while to catch up. He started sprinting.”

Khalifa lost Jones and then spotted a police car. He tried to flag it down.

An Orthodox passerby asked him what happened. Khalifa told him, then the man offered to help track down Jones.

“He was driving, so I got in,” he said. “We were just talking about how it was a hate crime. We found him at the bus stop and called the Shomrim.”

Numerous members of the Shomrim, the Jewish safety patrol, arrived to help find Jones. One of the men was driving a 2017 Porsche.

Khalifa spotted Jones at a bus stop and the posse waited quietly while he got on the bus and cops arrived.

“I got out and looked at the window and yelled, ‘Get out you coward why are you trying to hide!’ ” he said. “He pulled on his hoodie like he was trying not to be recognized.”

The police started removing people from the bus, and Jones got violent.

“I'm going to kill all of you! I'm going to kill all of you!” he screamed, according to Khalifa.

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