Full of hatred
Man busted, again, in race-attack spree
A Brooklyn bigot with a long résumé of hate randomly threatened one white man and assaulted two others during a racist three-day rampage, prosecutors charged Wednesday.
Kevin Raphael, 39, spewed obscenities and racial slurs at the trio targeted in broad daylight “simply because of the color of their skin,” said Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.
The black suspect slugged two of the unsuspecting victims in the face as they rode on buses through Brooklyn, and threatened a third man as he walked with his pregnant wife in Crown Heights. Raphael was busted on similar charges in 2016 and 2017, including a threat to murder a man he perceived as gay.
Felicia Iglesias, 30, of Brooklyn, told the Daily News that Raphael made a comment to her and husband Daniel as they waited for a car to drive past — and then started stalking the couple.
“The guy stopped us and we was talking about us being white,” recounted Felicia about the July 29 incident. “Dan kept looking back and I had no idea (Raphael) had been following us.”
According to prosecutors, Raphael delivered a racist rant accompanied by a gesture to his waistband, as if he was carrying a gun.
“I kill white people like you,” Raphael announced.
The last two attacks occurred on city buses, with Raphael bashing the riders as they sat in their seats, prosecutors charged.
In the July 30 attack, Raphael allegedly marched up to Maximilian Ferlsch on the B25 bus and uncorked a punch to the law student’s face. .
Wlodzimierz Wielocha, 59, was smacked repeatedly in the head while riding the B41 bus along Flatbush Ave. on July 31, court papers alleged. The victim suffered a concussion.
Raphael was held on bail at his arraignment on a 13-count indictment for assault, menacing and other charges for the racist attacks.
He was first imprisoned after a 2016 incident in which he punched a white man on a Brooklyn subway platform.
Upon his release from jail the next year, a knife-wielding Raphael told a man in Brooklyn, "I am going to kill you. I don’t like f-----s.”