subway slashings
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‘The time for action is now:’ Calls for more subway cops grow louder after A train carnage
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Two people found fatally stabbed on separate NYC subway trains
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Man slashed in NYC subway station in latest transit violence
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MTA IG supports harsher punishments for attacks on transit workers
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The “A-train Ripper” is in custody, multiple law enforcement sources told The Post on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
A knife-wielding madman wanted in a gruesome subway spree that left two homeless people dead and two others slashed along the A train line was nabbed in Upper Manhattan, the sources said.<\/p>\n
His shoes were still splattered with his victims’ blood — and he was still in possession of the bloody knife, one source added.<\/p>\n
The yet-named suspect was in custody at the 34th Precinct in Washington Heights, the sources said.<\/p>\n
The bloodshed sparked an outcry for safer subways, and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea responded, announcing a “surge” of 500 additional cops for the department’s Transit Bureau to be deployed across the city immediately.<\/p>\n
The spree began Friday morning, not far from where the alleged stabber was caught, authorities said.<\/p>\n
At 11:30 a.m., a 67-year-old man was stabbed as he pushed his walker along the southbound platform at the A train\u2019s 181st Street station in Washington Heights.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am going to kill you!\u201d he told cops his attacker screamed, according to sources. He was stabbed in the right knee and left buttocks; while he required surgery, he is expected to survive the attack.<\/p>\n
That attack is preliminarily believed to be connected to three subsequent attacks.<\/p>\n
Twelve hours later, at 11:29 p.m. Friday, a man was found stabbed to death but still slumped in his seat on an A train at Mott Avenue station in Far Rockaway.<\/p>\n
He suffered stab wounds to his neck and torso, and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Some two hours after that, at 1:15 a.m. Saturday, a 44-year-old woman was found sprawled dead, again in a pool of blood, under her subway seat inside an A train at the 207th Street station in Inwood.<\/p>\n
She had been stabbed throughout her body.<\/p>\n
Afterward, at 1:28 a.m. Saturday, a 43-year-old man was randomly stabbed as he slept on a stairwell at the A train station at West 181st Street.<\/p>\n
He stumbled to a nearby bank on West 181st Street, but collapsed before entering the vestibule, cops said.<\/p>\n
The victim is being treated at an area hospital for four puncture wounds to his back, and is in stable condition.<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old woman was taken to New York Presbyterian-Allen Hospital, where she was declared dead, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
It is the worst subway stabbing spree since June of 2006, when a homeless serial slasher injured four people on a 13-hour rampage on trains in Harlem and Rockefeller Center. His victims all survived.<\/p>\n
And it is the worst mass-violence against the homeless since 2019, when four homeless men were bludgeoned to death in their sleep one night in Manhattan\u2019s Chinatown.<\/p>\n
Mayor de Blasio recently waved off NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea\u2019s public concerns of a recent spate of subway attacks, which included a straphanger shoved onto the tracks.<\/p>\n