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The homeless man who shoved a woman into the path of a moving Manhattan train made a chilling confession — telling cops, “I did it because I wanted to,” .. Markeese Brazelis, 26, brazenly admitted to tossing the 23-year-old victim into an incoming A train at the 168th Street station shortly after he was arrested for the savage Monday morning attack, prosecutors said at his Manhattan Criminal Court arraignment. ... “I did it because I wanted to,” he said. ... this was his third arrest in the subway system in just over a week. .... Both cases, which included charges...

A fiend strangled a woman from behind – causing her to black out – in a heinous, apparently unprovoked attack in the East Village last week, cops said. The 25-year-old woman was walking near Houston Street and Avenue D around 4:10 a.m. on Oct. 22 when an unidentified approached and strangled her from behind, police said. The sudden attack caused the victim to fall to the ground and black out briefly, authorities said. When the woman got back on her feet, her assailant ran off toward Avenue C, police said.