Soho bottle-slash attack suspect has history of assaults

Daily News via Yahoo ^ | April 8, 2025 | Rocco Parascandola, Thomas Tracy, and Ellen Moynihan

[grundle]

The homeless man who police say attacked two women in Soho with a glass bottle, viciously slashing one in the throat, has a history of arrests for assault and two felony convictions.

Tuesday afternoon, Muslim Brunson, 46, was awaiting arraignment for the Monday attacks on Megan Berg, a 25-year-old costume designer whose trachea was damaged, and the 29-year-old woman he struck over the head with the bottle near Broome St. and Wooster St. around 3 p.m.

Brunson has five prior arrests dating back to 2019, four of them for assault, police said.

In September 2019, he pushed a 13-year-old male passenger out of a train car and onto the platform at the Van Siclen Ave. subway station in Brownsville, Brooklyn, after snatching the teen’s cell phone, sources said.

Bail was set in that case, but Brunson was later released without bail, and the case was slated to move to mental health court.

After his release, Brunson missed at least one court date and so a bench warrant was issued. He was arrested after the warrant and was jailed from Feb. 2 to July 22, 2021, sources said.

On July 22, 2021, he was convicted of robbery after pleading in mental health court and released pending sentencing.

While awaiting sentencing, Brunson committed a felony assault, slamming a woman’s head into a subway pole aboard a Brooklyn-bound No. 4 train near the Fulton St. station on July 4, 2022, fracturing the victim’s cheekbone and an orbital bone, sources said.

Upon his arrest on July 6, 2022, he assaulted a cop, the sources added.

Brunson was again jailed until Dec. 7, 2022, when he pleaded guilty to attempted assault and was convicted of the 4 train attack, receiving a 364-day sentence, to run concurrently with the one-to-three-year sentence he received for the robbery

[Jeff Chandler]

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