‘It could have been me’

A Brooklyn woman who was mercilessly harassed by deranged subway pushing suspect Kamel Hawkins said he terrorized her for weeks and she’s grateful she wasn’t the one he finally sent to the hospital.

“It could have been me,” the woman, who asked not to be identified, told The Post on Wednesday. “People always say to read the warning signs and I’m glad I did.

“It’s sad,” he added. “I don’t wish him anything bad. He could have finished school and become an IT technician. I could have abandoned the projects. “He could have changed his own story.”

Instead, Hawkins, 23, was indicted for attempted murder and assault in Manhattan Criminal Court in the horrible traffic caught on video attack on a 45 year old man Joseph Lynskey strap hanger.

Hawkins was already facing assault and harassment charges in Brooklyn when he allegedly shoved Lynskey, who miraculously survived despite a fractured skull, broken ribs and ruptured spleen.

The victim was listed in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital on Wednesday.

According to Hawkins’ alleged harassment victim, the two met while studying at Brooklyn Job Corps.

She said the two began “hanging out,” but the relationship never became romantic and quickly fizzled out after Hawkins hit her dog for no reason in the fall.

“I came back into the room and thought, ‘Did you just hit my dog?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, that black is wilin’. Why would you hit my dog? “My dog ​​is like my son,” he said. “After that I let him know that I’m not okay with him.”

But the woman said Hawkins didn’t receive the message, even after she blocked it on her phone.

On October 9, he showed up at her apartment.

“Out of nowhere he is kicking in my door. “He has the balaclava on,” he said.

She said this continued to happen over the next few days, prompting her to show up at Hawkins’ father’s apartment in the Whitman Houses in Brooklyn, to no avail.

“’Tell your son to stop kicking down my door, it’s scary,’” the woman said. told Shamel Hawkins. “’He’s sending me sexual text messages.’ It seemed like his father wanted us to stay away from the door more.

“(Kamel) comes to the door, the same balaclava he’s wearing in the video,” he said. “He threw bleach on me and my best friend. It got in my eye. He’s yelling, ‘You bitches are crazy.’ I don’t know you bitches.’”

He said the harassment reached a fever pitch on October 19.

“I went outside. “I was going out with my boyfriend and he had the same balaclava and the same hoodie from the video (the subway push),” she recalled. “I took out my pepper spray. I told him I’m going to pepper spray you. He picked up a canned drink and threw it at me: ‘You don’t have your boyfriend with you, you don’t have your uncle with you.’

“I sprayed it, but it didn’t really do anything,” he said.

That’s when the woman called police and Hawkins was arrested, only to be released without bail on Oct. 20 to enter a court intervention program, court records show.

Meanwhile, the frightened woman was forced to request emergency relocation from the New York City Housing Authority on November 11 and now lives in a different housing complex.

“He crawls around,” he said of Hawkins. “You don’t even know where it is. One time, my boyfriend and I were sitting outside, at 2 or 3 in the morning, and then he just walked around, like it was weird.”