Saturday, September 21, 2024

Updated: Man stabbed in back exiting the L train at 1st Avenue

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Updated 9/23: Police have made an arrest in the case. Details here. The suspect, an East Village resident, is out on bail.

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According to the NYPD and media accounts, a 29-year-old man was stabbed in the back last night just before 9 by a stranger as he was exiting a Brooklyn-bound L train at the First Avenue stop. 

The Daily News reported the victim first thought he had been punched until he saw the blood. 

Per the News: "Police later described the possible attacker as 'an Asian man with a bag.'" 

In a follow-up story, amNY reported that when leaving the station, the victim "bumped into the suspect, who then engaged in a verbal argument with him." The suspect then stabbed the man and ran off. 

According to surveillance footage released by the NYPD, the suspect was wearing a white baseball cap, a white mask under his chin, a dark blue jacket with white lettering on the sleeves over a light blue shirt, dark pants, and blue-and-white sneakers.
EMTs took the victim to Bellevue, where he is in stable condition, ABC 7 reported.

Anyone with information that could help in the investigation is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). You may also submit tips online. All calls are strictly confidential.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2024 at 10:40 AM

    What in the world is going on? Now I've gotta watch my back just getting out of the goddamn L train?

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 23, 2024 at 12:34 PM

    14th Street, of course. Where is our promised mobile command unit for this troubled area?

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2024 at 12:17 PM

    The man who was arrested was released without bail ("supervised release"). Only in New York, among all 50 states, is a judge prohibited from considering dangerousness in deciding what to do with a suspect. Here we have a guy carrying three knives who attacks a stranger. Sounds dangerous to me and now I'll be sharing my subway stop with him again.

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