A maniac who allegedly pushed a woman onto Brooklyn subway tracks and punched another straphanger in the face Saturday finished off his violent tirade by pummeling an innocent 17-year-old girl moments later, prosecutors revealed Sunday.
Curtis Signal — who has a history of violence against women — slugged the teen “dead in the face,” prosecutors alleged during his arraignment Sunday evening in Brooklyn Criminal Court on a slew of charges.
The girl had been trying to get out of his way before the random attack, Assistant District Attorney Tziyonah Langsam told the courtroom.
Signal, 25, had first approached three ladies on the R subway line at 53rd Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park early Saturday, telling one woman to “shut up” before lunging at them, Langsam said.
He pushed a 51-year-old woman onto the train tracks, causing the stranger to sustain “substantial pain to the body and a laceration to the face,” Langsam said.
Signal continued the aggressive outburst, punching a 44-year-old woman and causing her face to swell, prosecutors added.
The alleged subway shover said he “did what he had to do” during the unprovoked attack, according to Langsam.
He also allegedly decried that “people want to fight for no reason,” and that he “always has to stand up” for himself.
As the career criminal fled the subway station, he began yelling as he walked away, causing a 17-year-old girl to try to get out of his way, Langsam revealed.
Signal asked the teen, “Are you a gangster?” then “punched her dead in the face,” while saying
“Little girl thought she was gangster,” the ADA said.
The teen girl identified Signal as her attacker from a photograph at a local business, while the other two victims identified him from surveillance footage.
The brute was busted later at a shelter and hit with several charges, including attempted second-degree murder, first-degree attempted assault, second-degree reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of a weapon.
Prosecutors argued that Signal — who sported a red flannel jacket, a black hoodie, and white Nike high top sneakers during his court hearing — has a “violent history,” as a repeat transit offender who is on probation until June 2027.
His violent past includes allegedly punching a 67-year-old woman as she waited for an F train at 169th Street on Sept. 3, 2023, in Jamaica, Queens, prosecutors and sources said.
“The experience was so traumatic I can’t talk about it,” the victim told The Post Saturday after learning her attacker was accused of assaulting additional women.
His other run-ins with the law include allegedly punching a cop in a Bronx subway station in 2023, beating a 31-year-old woman at a Queens doctor’s office in 2022 and striking his 13-year-old sister, leaving her with a black eye, also in 2022.
Signal’s defense attorney, Jack Brewer, said that “there is more to Signal,” arguing that the alleged assaulter is a Brooklyn native who graduated from Queens Academy High School.
Judge Jacob Zelmonovitz ordered him held without bail after determining he is a “flight risk,” denying his defense’s bail request.
Signal is slated to return to court on Feb. 19.
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