Boy, CSI star Gerald McCullouch has some really good or really bad luck, depending on how you view things. The actor was robbed at gunpoint in Atlanta eight years ago. And now he’s been attacked by a kitchen knife-wielding assailant in New York. McCullouch was riding the subway from JFK when the man tried to steal his laptop. Instead of just taking it, he fought the attacker, who then pulled out the giant knife.
Gerald McCullouch found himself caught in a real-life crime investigation when he was recently attacked on a New York City subway by a knife-wielding mugger who attempted to steal his laptop.
McCullouch, 41, told the New York Daily News that the attacker tried to snatch his computer “and dash out the door,” but the actor, who trains as a boxer, fought back by hitting the man. His attacker then pulled out a kitchen knife. “This thing must have had a blade 10 inches long,” McCullouch said. “The other passengers started running out the door and into the next car.”
The actor, who was not injured in the attack, said police arrived on the scene. A 39-year-old male suspect was arrested and charged with possession of a weapon, robbery and assault.
[From People]
According to the Daily News, the man tried to stab McCullouch but failed – possibly thanks to the actor’s leather jacket.
“I still had my headphones on with music blaring. I yelled at the top of my lungs, ‘Get the [bleep] away from me!’ That’s when the knife came down into my back. I don’t know whether he lost his grip or what, but the blade didn’t penetrate my leather jacket.
“We were in each other’s face. I think I punched him again as the doors closed and the train started leaving the station. I’m watching MTA workers on the platform looking in. I thought, ‘Great, now I’m alone in this car with him.’
“The train was halfway out of the station when it stopped. I was saying stupid, cocky stuff, like ‘You are [bleeped] buddy!’ He came at me again with the knife. But the other passengers had told a conductor, ‘A guy’s getting stabbed in there,’ so the conductor came in and got me into the next car. Then about 10 cops jumped on the train and got the guy handcuffed on the floor. I told them the guy had a knife. They found it hidden under a seat or something.”
[From the New York Daily News]
It sounds like quite the fight. It’s a good thing McCullouch is a boxer. He noted that the police think the man they arrested might be the same person who stabbed two cops. Though New York City is a lot safer than it used to be, there’s obviously still crazy, demented criminals out there. This is one of those stories that turned out well but could just as easily have had a tragic ending. Luckily no one was hurt, and from McCullouch’s description the cops were on the scene quickly.
Here’s Gerald McCullouch at the “Thirteen” premiere in 2004. Images thanks to PR Photos.
I’m sorry, but using a laptop on a subway is just ASKING for trouble. It’s an expensive item and you are distracted, say, updating for YouTube (which is what he was doing), headphones on.
I’m glad he’s okay, but that is just incredibly stupid.
He’s not lucky he trained as a boxer, he’s lucky the nutter didn’t have a gun. Perhaps if he hadn’t trained as a boxer he wouldn’t be half as cocky as he was. I understand well the fight or flight urge, but police warn against actively baiting a knife-wielding thug for a reason.
WTF AND MAIREAD YOU ARE BOTH WRONG WRONG WRONG !!!! I’m sorry but at no point in my life should I be afraid to do anything, including use my laptop in public. It’s the F*$%^&G liberals that have coddled the criminals to a point that they realise THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES FOR THEIR ACTIONS. So of course there is no reason not to commit the crime. Boxer, HELL, he should have been able to pull out a bigger knife and jam it between the idiot muggers eyes. Once the muggers (insert any criminal type here) start learning they get killed for committing crimes and if they’re caught, that jail (once it’s fixed) is a miserable place, crime will stop.
Excuse me – but just because I’m a f** liberal doesn’t give you any to shout at me, sunshine. Nor does it mean that I don’t hold quite severe opinions on crime. I just repeated what police the world over say about “have-a-go heroes” – it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. As it happens I do understand the reaction to get angry when under threat as it’s been my default setting in the mast – but there is no way in hell I’d be half as much a moron as that dumbass to start bigmouthing at someone who’s just tried to stab me.
(I’m saying nothing about him using a laptop, I just assumed the guy grabbed the bag it was in)
And a bigger knife probably wouldn’t save him from a criminal who has a gun. And under your system, why bother threatening someone to get them to hand over something or running off with it – when you can just kill them straight off the bat? That’s a brilliant idea!
You know the problem so many people have with violent criminals is that they seem to hold human life with such a low value. You’ve proven that you’re just as bad as them by placing by saying that a life is worth a sh*tting laptop computer, be it the owner’s or the thief. Con-frigging-gratulations.
(and believe you me, I’ve edited my original draft of this response a lot to keep somewhat within the site’s guidelines)
Mairead: Rip this asshole a new one! Nobody’s impressed with his eurocentric, compensating (bet’s he’s got a big truck and lots of guns, too) mindset except other baboons of his stature.
Don, raving lunatics are never really listened to. Even if you get through to anyone, the fact that your argument is coated in shit keeps anyone from really letting it hit home.
I work for a certain agency and we tell people not fight back, and if you do and you may even be charged, just give the guy whatever he wants…..