Waheed Foster, an ex-convict arrested on suspicion of savagely beating a Hispanic woman in a subway station in Queens (NYC) last year while on probation, has now been charged for the death of his girlfriend in the Bronx, years after killing to her grandmother.
Foster, 42, pleaded “not guilty” when he was arraigned in Bronx Supreme Court earlier this month on allegations that he fatally strangled Jessica Miller on Aug. 6, 2022, according to sources and court records.
By this time Foster was on probation for another case. A few weeks later he was arrested on suspicion of randomly beating Elizabeth Gomes, blinding her in her right eye, as she was on her way to work as a security guard at JFK airport. That attack that happened around 5:15 am on September 20 at the Howard Beach-JFK Airport station was captured in a dramatic video.
Miller, 40, had been found unconscious in an apartment a block from her Morris Park home by police officers responding to a 911 call. The medical examiner’s office later determined that she had been strangled and her death was ruled a homicide. .
Foster, who has been jailed since September for attacking Gomes, was indicted in December on murder charges in Miller’s death, but only appeared in court on April 10 when the indictment was unsealed, he reported. New York Post this week.
He also faces attempted murder and assault charges for the unprovoked beating of Gomes. Suspect Foster had been ranting about “the devil” when he hit her over the head with a bottle and then chased after her before throwing her into the side of a Metro Card booth as he followed by repeatedly stomping on her, according to prosecutors.
At the time Foster, who killed his grandmother when he was 14 in 1995, had been arrested weeks earlier for violating probation in another case, but was released under New York’s controversial penal reform laws.
His record also includes being arrested for stabbing his 21-year-old sister with a screwdriver. Then in 2010 he was arrested for attacking three workers at the “Creedmore Psychiatric Center” in Queens, where he was admitted. At the time of the attack last September, he had more than two years left on probation until November 2024.
After being attacked, Gomes launched criticism of the municipal government. “Our city needs a lot of help… The mayor said we would have a lot more cops on the subway and the cops specifically would be patrolling the subways because that’s where we’re having the worst crime. Especially in places like the Howard Beach station.”