Man stabbed in chest during NYC subway clash in latest of recent violent transit attacks

A 45-year-old man was stabbed during an early Tuesday clash in a Bronx subway station — just the latest in a string of recent violent attacks in the city’s transit system, cops said.The victim was knifed in the chest just before 3 a.m.when a feud boiled over on the platform at the 138th Street-Grand Concourse Nos.

4 and 5 subway station in Mott Haven, police said.He was taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, authorities said.Splattered blood could be seen on the platform after the violence.No arrests have been made.The attack came just days after a knife-wielding lunatic stabbed a stranger in the back at a Manhattan subway station because the victim accidentally bumped into him on the staircase, cops said.The suspect, Raymond Kwok, 27, plunged a knife into the back of the 29-year-old man shortly before 9 p.m.Friday at the entrance to the L train at 14th Street and First Avenue in the East Village, cops said.Kwok was carrying three knives in his pockets when he was busted two days later.

He was charged with assault in the second degree, attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon, prosecutors said.Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Michael Gaffey decided to grant Kwok supervised release – over prosecutors’ request that he be held on $25,000 cash bail.On Thursday, another maniac senselessly shoved a 62-year-old woman onto Brooklyn subway tracks because she ignored his request for a lighter, cops and sources said.Quick-acting bystanders pulled her back to safety, they said.Shadrach Ford, 30, of Uniondale, LI, was nabbed Friday in the early Thursday attack at the Jefferson Street station in Bushwick, police said.He faces charges including attempted murder and was ordered held without bail, online records show.Over the weekend, a 15-year-old boy also was shot in broad daylight during a violent spat that began on board a Bronx MTA bus, authorities said.The boy got into a dispute with at least one other person on the bus ...

Read More 
PaprClips
Disclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by PaprClips.
Publisher: New York Post

Recent Articles