Two people were killed and two others injured in a “horrific” series of stab wounds on a New York City subway line, the Brooklyn borough said Saturday.
According to the police, the police stabbed the A-train between the knives between Friday morning and Saturday morning. Authorities are investigating whether one person was responsible for all four stabbings.
Police were called to a Fort Washington station around 11:20 a.m. Friday and found a 67-year-old man with stab wounds, authorities said at a news conference Saturday afternoon.
Transit chief Kathleen O’Reilly said the victim was stabbed by an unknown man and taken to hospital for treatment.
Friday night, just before 11:30 p.m., police received another call at Far Rockaway station and found a man in the train with stab wounds to his neck and body. According to O’Reilly, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
About two hours later, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee found an unconscious 44-year-old woman in a train suffering from multiple stab wounds, according to authorities. She died in a hospital.
Around the same time, a 43-year-old man was found with stab wounds at the subway station in Fort Washington. The man told police he was attacked by an unknown man, said Brian McGee, chief of detectives in northern Manhattan.
The victim was taken to the hospital, where he was in a stable condition.
“Three of these incidents appear to be related, and the detective agency is investigating the possibility that all four could have been committed by one individual,” O’Reilly told reporters.
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea expressed his sympathy with the victims and said that 500 extra officers would be deployed in the city immediately to patrol subway stations.
Brooklyn borough Eric Adams said the stabbings came amid a surge of other violent crimes on subways in the city.
“The perpetrators of this violence often struggle with some form of severe mental illness, and their targets are often among the most vulnerable New Yorkers, including our homeless neighbors who seek the subway system as a refuge during the winter months,” he said. . said in a statement.
“It’s clear that the City’s current approach to metro safety is failing,” he added.
