NYPOST: Brute charged in attack on MTA workers freed after cutting deal — only to go on slashing spree a year later

Published Aug. 11, 2024

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“A deranged brute charged with attacking two MTA workers and a transit cop last year was freed after cutting a deal to get psychiatric help — despite allegedly attacking four Rikers Island guards while he was locked up.

Christian Marrero, 21, not only blew off the psych program but is now charged with slashing three more innocent people in Queens during a rampage of random violence after he was let out of jail, according to officials and sources.

Only now is he behind bars without bail.

“It’s not at all shocking that another criminally insane person didn’t keep his word to attend psychiatric help,” one law enforcement source lamented to The Post.

“We’re never going to solve this problem until we place real consequences to any lack of adherence to mental health treatment. You either attend treatment or face the full effect of the law.”

Marrero was first arrested in June 2023 for allegedly attacking two MTA workers and a transit police officer two days apart in Manhattan.