An 18-year-old was stabbed to death last night on a New York Subway train in Brooklyn.
The crime occurred around 11:30 p.m. Thursday in a car on the D line entering the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center station, he said. New York Post. The police said that some youngsters got into a fight what caused the stabbing, reported CBS News.
The victim was with two or three other people when he got into a fight with another group of passengers, he said. ABC News. The unidentified injured man was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, but did not survive.
The suspect fled on foot after getting off the train. A description of him has not been released and the gun involved has not been recovered by the NYPD.
No arrests have been made or suspects identified. Anyone with information should call to 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
In recent days several bladed and firearms have been seized in the New York Subway in routine operations against fare evasion. Some of the detainees were wanted by the police as suspects for other crimes.
Since taking office in January 2022, the alcalde Eric Adams, ex NYPD, announced several times that the number of NYPD officers in the underground system would double in a strengthened security plan to deal with violence in the chaotic NYC Subway. But until now crime and chaos have followed.
In January, a 34-year-old man died of a blow to the head after he was pushed onto the subway tracks during an altercation with an ex-convict at a Manhattan station.
At the beginning of March, two people died a few hours apart after being run over in MTA stations. Was the third fatality that month on the New York subway, after a 14-year-old boy fell to his death between train cars in the Bronx.
At the same time MTA faces million-dollar losses due to the increasing number of users who access the Metro and buses without paying. In addition, it is estimated that some 3,400 homeless people are currently living in subway cars and stations.
