Unhinged thief caught torching laundry in weird housebreaking charged as NYC serial slasher: cops

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The unhinged man busted in a weird Brooklyn housebreaking the place he ended up torching somebody’s laundry was accused in an unsettling collection of unprovoked slashings, cops stated. 

Odyssey Head, 27, was arrested Monday in connection to the string of mindless assaults on strangers that started Saturday morning and ended greater than 24 hours later, police stated. 

Within the first assault round 6:30 a.m. Saturday, Head allegedly slashed a 37-year-old man on the left facet of his face on board a northbound Q practice approaching Cortelyou Street, authorities stated. 

Odyssey Head, 27, was charged with tried homicide in connection to the weekend random slashing spree concentrating on three males in Brooklyn, cops stated. NYPD

A number of hours handed earlier than he focused his subsequent sufferer – a 53-year-old man who he allegedly reduce on the left facet of his face on the intersection of Foster Avenue and New York Avenue round 9:40 p.m., police stated. 

Then the subsequent morning simply earlier than 7 a.m., Head allegedly reduce a 56-year-old man on New York Avenue close to Newkirk Avenue, inflicting the same harm, authorities stated.  

Earlier than the collection of slashings, Head allegedly started his prison spree round 5 a.m. Saturday, cops stated. 

Head was additionally charged with allegedly slashing a buyer at a Burlington Coat Manufacturing unit final month, police stated. NYPD

In that incident, he allegedly barged right into a residential constructing on New York Avenue close to Avenue D and broken the plumbing pipe and electrical wires of a basement washer, cops and sources stated. 

He lit some garments of fireside within the washer and dryer earlier than fleeing, police stated.

Nobody was house on the time, and Head – who lives in Sheepshead Bay a number of miles away – has no relationship to that handle, the sources stated. 

Head can also be accused of allegedly intruding right into a Brooklyn constructing and setting some garments on hearth inside a washer and dryer, cops stated. NYPD

The NYPD additionally linked Head to a random slashing from round 12:50 p.m. Sept. 14 inside a Burlington Coat Manufacturing unit on Tilden Avenue close to Flatbush Avenue, authorities stated. 

In that assault, he allegedly reduce a 30-year-old male buyer on the again of the neck with an unknown object, police stated. 

The sufferer was hospitalized with non-life-threatening accidents. 

Head has 4 prior arrests, the newest for a Brooklyn theft greater than a decade in the past, police stated. NYPD

Along with tried homicide, Head additionally faces housebreaking, arson, assault, menacing, weapon possession, prison mischief and prison trespass costs in connection to the string of crimes, police stated. 

He has 4 prior arrests on his rap sheet relationship again greater than a decade, most just lately on a Brooklyn armed theft bust on Oct. 7, 2014.

His arraignment within the new circumstances was pending Tuesday.

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