A scar-faced parolee was the sicko who terrorized three moms in Queens by pointing a gun at their kids’ heads and offering them a grim choice – your money or your child’s life, police said yesterday.
Lamar Jackson, 31, of St. Albans, Queens, was busted at a Brooklyn subway station Wednesday after hiding under a train for 45 minutes to avoid being nabbed for snatching a gold chain from a woman.
He was charged yesterday after one of the moms identified him as the heartless thug who put a gun to her 2-year-old daughter’s temple on a J train on April 2 and commanded, “Shut that little bitch up or I’ll blow her brains out.”
When Jackson, who has a telltale scar down his right cheek, was ordered to repeat the phrase in a lineup, the woman burst into tears and began reliving her ordeal.
“The face, the voice, everything. It was like that night again popped right into my head. I got scared, I thought he was going to pull out his gun again. I just started screaming, ‘I want to go home,'” she told The Post.
The woman, a 20-year-old doctor’s receptionist, said her daughter “takes sharp things to her head and says, ‘Shut up, or I’m going to blow your brains out,’ or she’ll run around the house, saying, ‘Mommy, he’s here – help me!'”
“I hope you regret what you did to me and my daughter and you rot in jail,” she said of her attacker.
Her lawyer, Steven Gilden, said he plans to sue the Transit Authority and the city for lax security.
At the time of the attacks, Jackson, who has a lengthy rap sheet that includes five convictions and numerous arrests, was on parole until February 2001.
In August 1994, he was sentenced to up to 7 years for ripping two gold chains off a mother after elbowing her 8-year-old son in the eye.
He was conditionally released on Oct. 20, 1998, but jailed again on April 14, 1999, for violating the terms of his release.
He was paroled last Jan. 6, but on March 27, an arrest warrant was issued because he stopped reporting to his parole officer.
Jackson’s arrest prompted Police Commissioner Howard Safir to renew his call for ending parole.
“This is a perfect example of why we need to eliminate parole in this city so that predators like this do not continue to prey on the citizens of the city,” he said.
Jackson was busted after officers Margaret Lynch and Andrew Huksloot spotted him at the Church Avenue station of the D train shortly after he ripped off a gold chain from a woman, police said.
He ran down the platform, jumped onto the tracks and hid under a train for 45 minutes before surrendering.
“I kept saying to him, ‘There’s no where to go, you’re going to get yourself hurt,'” Huksloot said. “It’s not worth it for a chain.”
After the power was turned off and he surrendered, he was identified as a suspect in the other attacks. Jackson was charged with robbery and related offenses in the Brooklyn and Queens attacks on the women and kids. He was held in lieu of $100,000 bail in the Brooklyn incident.
Aida Rios, 62, the mother of Jackson’s girlfriend, Bridget, was stunned to learn of Jackson’s arrest.
“It’s not the same guy I know,” she said. “He buys flowers for her. He buys her beautiful birthday cards. For Mother’s Day, he bought me flowers and a Mother’s Day card.”