A deranged lunatic who attacked a Queens straphanger — blinding her in one eye — faces 22 years in prison after taking a plea deal Thursday for the shocking Sept. 2022 caught-on-camera attack.
Waheed Foster, 43, pleaded guilty to attempted murder in the second degree at Queens Supreme Court at a hearing before Judge Ira Margulis for brutally beating Elizabeth Gomes at a Queens subway stop on Sept. 20, 2022.
Gomes told The Post that she had just left the A train on her way to work as a security guard at Kennedy Airport around 5:15 a.m. when Foster — who was ranting about Satan — approached her near the Howard Beach-JFK Airport station
She said she tried avoid Foster when the brute charged her, in which she claimed was a targeted attack.
The caught-on-video attack shows Foster — who had two prior arrests for attacking women — chase the victim off the train while attacking her in the near the subway entrance, police said.
Moments later, Foster then threw Gomes into a wall before repeatedly punching and kicking her while on the ground, cops said.
Even when a bystander tried stepping in to help the woman, the brute chased him off, video shows.
Gomes underwent emergency surgery for her injuries which resulted in the loss of her right eye.
The homeless man, who had several prior arrests before the attack, was arrested as a teen decades ago for beating his own grandmother, 82-year-old Ariela Mascha, to death in 1995 when he was just 14.
He’s slated to be sentenced on June 24.