New York deploys 500 more cops to subway after four stabbings

New York, Feb 14 (EFE) .- The New York Police Department (NYPD) has decided to deploy 500 more police officers to the subway network after four stabbings occurred in two hours in the night from Friday to Saturday. the same line, which left two deceased.
“The public should know that they are going to see a very large number of uniformed police officers in New York, either on the trains themselves or on the platforms,” ​​New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea told a news conference.
According to the senior law enforcement official, the four attacks occurred on line A, which runs through New York from northern Manhattan to southern Queens.
All four victims were homeless citizens, and the two survivors are still recovering from their injuries.
The attacks began on the night of Friday through Saturday when a 67-year-old man was stabbed by an unknown man at the 181st Street station in northern Manhattan and was later treated at a nearby hospital.
In addition, a dead man was found with stab wounds to the neck and torso at the Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue station in Queens at around 11:30 p.m. local time on Friday (04:30 GMT on Saturday), according to the Chief of Transportation of the NYPD, Kathleen O’Reilly.
About two hours later, a 44-year-old woman was found unconscious inside a wagon at the 207th Street station in northern Manhattan with “several stab wounds” and was taken to the hospital, where she was certified his death.
Less than 20 minutes later, the police responded to calls from a 43-year-old man who had been stabbed at the 181st Street station in Manhattan, who was transferred to a hospital, where he had to undergo surgery.
Although law enforcement officers admitted on Saturday night that they did not have “much information” about the perpetrator, shortly afterwards they announced the arrest of a homeless man, who found dried blood on his clothes and a knife between his Belongings believed to be the murder weapon.
This Sunday, the police were questioning the suspect, whose identity has not been made public.
In general, the number of crimes has fallen recently in New York, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York (MTA) and the New York Police, but in the last year there has been an increase in robberies in the subway despite the fact that the number of passengers has fallen by 70% due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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