‘Soho Wild Man’ strikes again in mad ‘scissor stabbing’

An angry vagrant nicknamed the “Soho Wild Man” for his history of terrorizing the neighborhood stabbed a street vendor in the chest with a pair of scissors on Monday, cops said.

Richard Pearson, 49, who’s racked up 21 arrests in more than 30 years, went berserk around 11:20 a.m., screaming at a passerby who told him to “F—k off” on Broadway near Prince Street, witnesses said.

Pearson grabbed a pair of scissors from vendor Baare Batchiri’s table of cellphone accessories — and plunged them into the peddler’s chest, cops and witnesses said.

Batchiri, 60, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in serious condition.

“He started cussing. He said, ‘F–k you. You’re black. You’re from Africa’ and tried to push me,” Batchiri, a father of three who’s originally from Niger, told The Post from the hospital’s emergency room. “He got the scissors and cut me.”

Batchiri said he alerted cops who were nearby of the attack and followed the crazed hobo into the subway.

“I followed him because I did not want him to get away,” said Batchiri.

Pearson was slapped with charges of attempted murder and menacing.

The homeless loon’s laundry-list rap sheet includes bashing a rival panhandler with a brick in 2013. He got off with a wrist-slap after a grand jury couldn’t indict him on felony assault charges.

Terrified SoHo residents have swarmed Pearson’s previous court appearances, begging the judge to keep the nut job off the streets and behind bars.

Residents also said they’ve seen Pearson grope mannequins and spew profanities on the street.

One time, the beggar allegedly stole a vendor’s 18-inch serrated knife and attacked a man with no legs, according to a letter written by a resident to a Manhattan Supreme Court judge. That letter also claimed Pearson repeatedly threatened to murder other residents.

“When he’s around, we’re all terrified,” said Minerva Durham, who runs art space Spring Studio. “When I heard the news, I just gasped because it was really what we wanted to prevent. What we wanted for him was to get help but he never accepted help.”

Additional reporting by Lia Eustachewich