Disturbing new details emerged Friday about an attack by an accused rapist who sexually violated a 27-year-old man on a Manhattan subway car, as the suspect flew into a deranged, expletive-filled tirade during his arraignment.
“How long, how long?” defendant Mohammad Azeem, 36, shouted as officers led him out of a Manhattan Criminal Court room. “S–k my d–k. F–k you,” he added.
Azeem was ordered held without bail on charges including rape and forcible touching by Judge Kacie Lally.
Boarding a northbound No. 1 train at the South Ferry Terminal Station at 4:11 a.m. on Apr. 26, the victim told investigators that Azeem had been lying on a bench on the train when he got up, grabbed the victim’s head and shoved his penis into his mouth, the criminal complaint says.
As the victim struggled against his attacker, desperately trying to shove him away, Azeem told the man to “bite it” before kissing him on the mouth and attempting to shove his tongue down his throat, court documents show.
Video obtained by investigators shows Azeem repeatedly penetrating the victim’s mouth with his penis, at one point covering the straphanger’s head with his shirt as he forced himself on the man, prosecutors say.
When other commuters boarded at another station, Azeem allowed the victim up from his seat and the straphanger fled into another car.
But the defendant pursued him, reached his hands down the man’s pants and attempted to stick a finger into the victim’s anus, prosecutors say.
Both the victim and Azeem exited the train at the Christopher St. station, where the violated straphanger was finally able to flee from his attacker, prosecutors said.
The victim alerted the train conductor about the attack. Medics transported him to an area hospital in stable condition.
Cops released surveillance images of the suspect early Thursday and asked the public’s help identifying him and tracking him down.
Police arrested Azeem, a Crown Heights resident, later that day.
“We don’t do that s—,” Azeem told reporters as he was led out of the 84th Precinct stationhouse in Downtown Brooklyn. “We ain’t gay.”
The arrest comes in the wake of a shocking attempted rape and grand larceny on a Manhattan subway last month, when a MTA train conductor found the corpse of Jorge Gonzalez, 37, facedown on the floor of an idling R train at the Whitehall St. subway station in lower Manhattan.
Gonzalez had only been dead for about 30 minutes on April 8 before Felix Rojas, 44, approached the body and sexually attacked him, police charged.
Rojas was arrested Sunday after his son told police he recognized his father as the man in security footage released by the NYPD.
Originally Published: May 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM EDT
