Boy, 16, subway musician, good Samaritan and MTA worker roughed up as transit violence surges: cops
A 16-year-old boy was stabbed and three other people were attacked in the latest surge of subway violence – just days after a shootout left one person dead and several others wounded, cops said.
The stabbing came hours after a homeless man slugged an MTA worker and good Samaritan – and a subway musician was clobbered with a bottle in a random attack, according to police.
The teen was knifed in the upper left thigh around 3:20 p.m. Wednesday as he walked on a Q train ramp at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station, cops said.
The boy, who was leaving the station when he was attacked, was taken to NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn, where he was listed in stable condition.
A suspect was taken into custody, but not immediately charged.
The motive for the attack remains under investigation.
Earlier in the day, the homeless man clocked the female MTA worker in the face after she woke him up on a Lower Manhattan train platform Wednesday morning – and then he walloped a bystander who tried to keep the peace, cops said.
The transit employee, 58, had spotted a 25-year-old vagrant snoozing on a bench on the southbound Nos. 4 and 5 train platform at Wall Street around 6 a.m., police said.
A 34-year-old man happened to walk by when he witnessed the attack and tried to stop the suspect, cops said.
But then the assailant turned on the bystander – who also took a blow to the face, police said.
The attacker was taken into custody with charges pending, authorities said.
Both the MTA worker and a passerby were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where they were listed in stable condition with minor injuries.
The attack came about 12 hours after a female attacker used a metal bottle to bludgeon a subway musician playing inside the 34th Street-Herald Square hub during the Tuesday evening rush, cops said.
The 29-year-old man – who was playing the cello, according to WPIX – was randomly attacked around 5:45 p.m. by a woman who struck him in the head with a bottle, causing a cut, police said.
The attacker fled the scene and had not been caught by Wednesday morning.
The NYPD released a photo of the suspect, who they say has a light complexion and a slim build, standing around 5-foot-3.
She was last seen wearing a brown fur coat, black winter hat, burgundy scarf and carrying a multi-colored cross-body bag.
Additional reporting by Nolan Hicks
