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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 1:48 pm
News story about the SEPTA hammer attack on DeWayne Taylor, via BlackTubeChannel on YouTube.
Just in case you woke up this morning saying, 'damn, I'd sure like to ride the subway today, but I sure don't want to get randomly beaten by some thickly-bearded, hammer-wielding psycho,' I thought I'd let you know that the hammer dude has been arrested.
I know I may spoil the illusion for some when I report that the gentleman arrested for the assault on half-sleeping victim DeWayne Taylor was not a shy, retiring scholarly type but a career criminal named Thomas Scantling.
The 26-year-old Scantling has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated and simple assault and whatever else will help keep him behind bars and away from hammers.
During an interview on NBC's Today, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said that Scantling has an extensive criminal history "including rape, robbery, assault, narcotics violations."
Scantling may have tried to harm himself after the subway attack, which occurred last Thursday morning. His family didn't know about the whole subway thing, so Scantling went to a mental institution. That was where the police caught up with him.
As for trying to find out why DeWayne Taylor had his morning ride to work so viciously interrupted, well, good luck with that one -- apparently, the attack really was completely random.
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