Homeless career criminal repeatedly throws nurse 62 down the stairs at Seattle light rail station

A homeless career criminal has been arrested and charged with brutally assaulting a nurse after police said he was caught on video repeatedly throwing the victim down the stairs at a light rail station in an unprovoked attack.

Alexander Jay, 40, was taken into custody earlier this month and charged with second-degree assault. As of Monday morning, he remained jailed on $150,000 bail.

According to court documents, shortly before noon on March 2, a 62-year-old nurse got off the light rail at the Chinatown-International District station in Seattle and was walking up the stairs when Jay grabbed her and threw her back down.

The unprovoked attack comes as Seattle continues to be plagued by crime from homeless encampments that have sprouted in the progressive city. Last week, Amazon announced it would relocate 1,800 workers from its downtown offices over fears for their safety.

Shocking video from the Chinatown-International District light rail station in Seattle on March 2 shows Alexander Jay, 40 (left), brutally attacking a 62-year-old nurse (right)

Video shows the suspect grabbing the woman and throwing her down the stairs head first

After the victim comes to rest on a landing, Jay races down the stairs, grabs her a second time and throws her further down

The apparently random attack owas caught on surveillance video, which shows the unidentified victim, dressed in a red jacket, tumbling head-first down the stairs and coming to rest on a landing, as reported by KTTH’s Jason Rantz.

Before the woman has a chance to get to her feet and flee, the suspect approaches her a second time, grabs hold of her again and hurls her further down the stairs.

The suspect, later identified as Jay, races down the steps and tries to throw the victim down a third time, but she desperately clings to the railing and puts up a fight.

While the suspect and victim are scuffling, two men, who appear to be homeless, walk up the escalator parallel to the staircase and witness the assault, but they fail to intervene.

After punching and kicking the victim, the brute runs back up the stairs and exits the station before first responders arrive on the scene.

The nurse suffered a broken clavicle and three broken ribs. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where doctors performed surgery on her.

The woman had been in the same rail car as Jay prior to the incident, but the two did not interact, police said

Two men (left) walking up the escalator witness the savage assault on the nurse but failed to intervene

The following day, police found Jay a half-mile from the crime scene and arrested him, reported KIRO.

Police said Jay and his victim had been in the same light rail car prior to the attack but had no interaction with one another.

The woman, however, got a good look at his face bearing a distinctive cross tattoo on his left cheek, and later recognized him as the person who attacked her.

Jay is also being investigated in connection with a stabbing that took place at a bus station at the intersection of 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street a short time after the assault on the nurse.

Jay, seen above leaving the station, has criminal records in Washington and California, which include nearly two dozen convictions

‘The description of the stabbing suspect was similar to the suspect in the assault, and both descriptions included the cross tattoo on his left cheek,’ the Seattle Police Department stated in a press release.

Court documents reveal that the 40-year-old man has a vast criminal record that lists 22 convictions across Washington state and California, including on charges of burglary, theft, selling stolen property, drug possession, auto theft and multiple counts of domestic violence.

He was most recently convicted in 2021 of a residential burglary.

Jay is due back in court on March 24.