New York police arrested a man suspected of a series of deadly knife attacks on homeless people on the city’s subway, according to several reports. Two people died and two others were injured in a matter of hours during the brutal stabbing wave this weekend along train line A. According New York Post, the suspect – who has not yet been identified – was still stained with the blood of his victims when he was arrested, and carried the knife allegedly used in the murders.
The violence started on Friday morning, when a 67-year-old man was hit on the platform at 181st St. Station by a man who reportedly shouted, “I’m going to kill you!” The man survived, but events took a dark turn on Friday night, when a man’s body was found in a pool of blood in a subway car at an A-line station in Queens. A few hours later, a woman who had been stabbed several times was found dead under a train seat. Another man was stabbed while sleeping on a stairway at an A-line station, but he got help from a nearby bank and is in a stable state. Police have not yet revealed details of the possible reason, but said the victims would be made homeless. “We know that one of the victims was asleep … Everything was not provoked,” said NYPD deputy chief Brian McGee at a news conference on Saturday.
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