NEW YORK (WABC) — The NYPD is looking for the person who attacked a subway employee with a pipe in Lower Manhattan.
It occurred proper earlier than Leonor Faña began her 7:00 shift Friday morning cleansing the E practice platform on the Chambers-World Trade Center cease.
She says she was in a position to name a coworker close by, then fell. While she says her bodily accidents harm, greater than something, she feels emotionally scarred, saying she is traumatized, nervous and anxious – feeling like hazard is all over the place.
It was not the primary time somebody attacked her whereas working in Lower Manhattan. Faña says whereas this was essentially the most critical, it was truly the third time. Only just a few days earlier, somebody shoved her to the bottom. Each assault, she says, was fully unprovoked.
Eyewitness News requested Faña what she considered subway violence being talked about a lot main as much as the election this week. She stated this could don’t have anything to do with politics, however as a substitute stated ‘I do hope whoever gained does one thing. There needs to be extra security. It might occur to anybody.’
She additionally says she has no selection however to return to the scene of the crime – as a result of as the one mother of a young person, she has to work.
In the meantime, she hopes police discover the assailant and maintain him accountable.
Police say the suspect took off towards Park Place, and so they wish to hear from anybody who can assist determine him.
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Investigators stated the sufferer boarded an A practice after he was stabbed, however received off on the Ozone Park Lefferts Boulevard station, the place he known as police. He was taken to Jamaica Medical Center for therapy.
Also early Monday, a 25-year-old man was slashed in the brow round 2:40 a.m. whereas on a J practice close to the Cypress Hills station in Brooklyn. He was handled on the scene. Police are nonetheless looking for suspects in each crimes.
On Sunday evening, authorities say a 54-year-old subway rider was stabbed in the arm round 9 p.m. whereas on a 4 practice close to the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station in the Bronx once they tried to cease a person from harassing a lady. The 42-year-old suspect was arrested and the sufferer was taken to Lincoln Hospital.
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Saturday, October 29
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A 23-year-old man was stabbed early Saturday morning in the 42 St. Times Square subway station.
Police say a gaggle of males had been preventing close to the 7 practice platform, when a suspect stabbed the sufferer in the torso.
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in crucial situation. A 22-year-old man was slashed in the arm in the course of the incident, however is anticipated to outlive.
Officials say 5 males fled the scene.
An replace to a narrative from Friday, police launched a surveillance image of a person who allegedly stabbed another man on a subway platform in Harlem.
Friday, October 28
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Police have launched photos of the person and lady accused of attacking a 78-year-old man on the subway.
The incident occurred on Thursday afternoon, onboard a 1 practice close to the 96 St. station on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Police say the suspects repeatedly punched the sufferer in the face after he requested them to show their music down.
The sufferer is anticipated to recuperate.
Officials are nonetheless on the lookout for the suspects.
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Samaritan attempting to interrupt up a battle on the subway early Wednesday ended up turning into the sufferer when he was stabbed. The NYPD says the 31-year-old man was stabbed on a train as it was pulling into the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station round 6 this morning.
Monday, October 24
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