New York police have arrested a suspect in Upper Manhattan Sunday, believed to be responsible for fatally stabbing two people and seriously injuring two others along the A train line.
Sources said that officers had nabbed the publicly dubbed “A-train Ripper” while he still had blood on his shoes from his latest victim. Police reportedly also caught him with a bloody knife. Officers are still trying to look for the suspect’s latest victim.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said that the arrest came after he had deployed 500 additional officers across the city in response to a public outcry for safer subways.
The attacks along the subway began on Friday. The first victim was a 67-year-old man, who was stabbed at the A train’s 181st Street station in Washington Heights. The man, who survived the attack, said that his would-be killer lunged at him and screamed that he was going to kill him.
The first attack was followed by three other attacks. Just twelve hours later, police found a man stabbed to death. The victim was still slumped on his seat on an A train heading to Mott Avenue station in Far Rockway.
Two hours later on Saturday, a 44-year-old woman was found dead lying in a pool of blood. She was found under the seat of an A train at the 207th Street station in Inwood.
The next victim of the “A-train Ripper” was a 43-year-old homeless man, who was stabbed while he was sleeping under a stairwell at the A train station at West 181st Street. The man was able to survive the attack and is being treated for four puncture wounds to his back.
The stabbings are the worst string of incidents in the New York subway since 2019 – when four homeless been were beaten to death in a single night.
