A homeless man accused of pushing an off-duty cop onto the subway tracks in New York City wore a terrifying hoodie for his first court appearance.
Aaron Walker, 28, is accused of punching and pushing a 24-year-old police officer onto the subway tracks at a station in the East Village on Tuesday night.
Appearing in court Wednesday morning, Walker wore a hoodie featuring Pennywise the Clown, the villain from Stephen King’s 1986 horror novel ‘It’.
The novel was initially turned into a TV mini-series in 1990, and later adapted into a 2017 film starring Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise.
Walker, who was in police custody overnight before his arraignment, was wearing the same sweatshirt when the alleged incident occurred.
One police officer was seen escorting Walker to Manhattan Central Booking, where he was set to be arraigned on eight charges.
The charges include attempted murder, attempted assault, attempted reckless endangerment, two counts of criminal trespassing, and two counts of disorderly conduct, as stated by the New York Police Department.
Court documents reveal Walker was released on Sunday for another alleged subway assault in Brooklyn, just days before the alleged attack on the officer.
Walker did not say anything when he was guided inside and maintained a deadpan expression.
Aaron Walker, 28, is seen being escorted to Manhattan Central Booking on Wednesday morning, the day after he allegedly tackled an off-duty police officer onto subway tracks
The alleged attack occurred at the 14th Street/Third Avenue L train station in the East Village. The cop and Walker brawled on the tracks and on the platform, according to police
The cop who was attacked suffered minor injuries to his head and body after getting into a vicious fight with the suspect at the 14th Street/Third Avenue L train station, police said.
The officer, who was heading home from working the United Nations General Assembly security detail, was walking on the southbound platform when Walker allegedly sucker punched him in the back of the head, grabbed him by the shirt and threw him onto the tracks, The New York Post reported.
According to police, Walker also fell onto the tracks, though both men were able to get themselves back onto the platform, where they continued brawling.
Walker then jumped onto the northbound tracks and started heading toward the 14th Street-Union Square station, according to police.
Responding officers then drove to the station, including the injured cop, and found Walker riding an uptown L train. He was arrested at the scene.
Walker has 18 prior arrests, with the most recent being on Saturday when he was seen smoking a cigarette on a train in Brooklyn.
Him getting caught for that inadvertently led police to realize that he was wanted for yet another subway assault that occurred on September 13.
That afternoon, police said Walker sat down next to a 22-year-old man on a C train at Fulton Street and Kingston Avenue and punched him multiple times in the face and head.
Walker (pictured) has 18 total arrests, many of them occurring over the last few months. However, many of his alleged crimes were not serious enough to allow a judge to set bail, meaning he was released from custody repeatedly
The victim in that case was a stranger to Walker and was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
Walker was charged with third-degree assault in connection to this, which is a misdemeanor that is not bail-eligible.
Therefore, he was granted supervised release during his arraignment hearing on Sunday, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said.
Walker was also arrested last week for allegedly stealing clothes and a home decor item from the Target on Greenwich Street near Park Place in Tribeca, The Post reported.
For this, he was charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property and released on his own recognizance. Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office had asked for supervised release.
Going further back, Walker was arrested in both July and August for stealing vinyl records from two different Barnes & Noble stores, the first in Brooklyn and the second in Manhattan.
Neither of the alleged thefts were enough to keep him in custody because the charges weren’t serious enough to allow a judge to set bail.
For Walker’s alleged attempted murder of a NYPD officer on Tuesday, he will likely be arraigned sometime tonight.
