A Brooklyn woman who was mercilessly stalked by deranged subway suspect Kamil Hawkins says he terrorized her for weeks — and she's grateful it wasn't her who ultimately hospitalized him.
“It could have been me,” the woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Post Wednesday. “People always say you should read for red flags, and I'm glad I did.
“It's sad,” she added. “I don't wish anything bad for him. He could have finished his studies and become an IT specialist. He could have left the projects. He could have changed his story.”
Instead, Hawkins, 23, was arraigned on attempted murder and assault charges in Manhattan Criminal Court in the horrific, videotaped crossing attack on 45-year-old Joseph Lynskey.
Hawkins was already facing assault and harassment charges in Brooklyn when he allegedly pushed Lynskey — who miraculously survived despite a fractured skull, broken ribs and a ruptured spleen.
The victim was listed in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital on Wednesday.
According to Hawkins' alleged stalking victim, the two met while studying at Brooklyn Job Corps.
She said the two started “hanging out” but the relationship never turned romantic — and quickly fizzled out after Hawkins beat her dog for no reason in the fall.
I came back into the room and said, 'Did you just hit my dog?' And he says, “Yes, that na is wilin.” Why are you hitting my dog? She said: My dog is like my child. “Then I told him I wasn’t nice to him.”
But the woman said Hawkins did not receive the message, even after she blocked him on her phone.
On October 9, he showed up at her apartment.
“Out of nowhere he's kicking in my door. He's got his ski mask on,” she said.
She said this continued to happen over the coming days, prompting her to come to Hawkins' father's apartment at the Whitman Houses in Brooklyn, but to no avail.
The woman said she told Shamil Hawkins: “Tell your son to stop kicking in my door, it’s scary.” “‘He’s sending me sexual texts.’” Apparently his father wanted us to stay away from the door more.
“[Kamel] “He comes to the door, and it’s the same ski mask he’s wearing in the video,” she said. “He threw bleach at me and my best friend. It got in my eyes. He’s screaming, ‘You bitches are crazy.’ I don’t know you bitches.”
She said the harassment reached its peak on October 19.
“I came out. I was going out with my friend, and he had the same ski mask, the same hoodie. [subway shove] “Video,” she remembered. “I got out my pepper spray. I told him I was going to pepper spray you. He picked up a canned drink and threw it at me, saying, 'You don't have your friend with you, and your uncle won't have you.'
“I sprayed it, but it didn't really do anything,” she 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 had to request an emergency move to the New York City Housing Authority on November 11, and is now living in a different apartment complex.
“He's a creep,” she said of Hawkins. “You don't even know where he is. One time my friend and I were sitting outside, like two or three in the morning, and then he was walking, like this is weird.
