Tension in the New York subway, with police on alert / AP
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The New York Police Department (NYPD) decided to deploy 500 more police officers in the subway network after four stabbings occurred in two hours on the same line on the same line on the night from Friday to Saturday, which left two dead. .
“The public should know that they are going to see a very high number of uniformed police officers in New York, either on the trains themselves or on the platforms,” New York Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said at 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 person 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 around midnight on Saturday, according to New York Police Chief of Transportation 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 the forces of order admitted on Saturday night that they did not have “much information” about the perpetrator of the events, shortly afterwards they announced the arrest of a homeless man, who found dried blood on his clothes and with a knife between his Belongings believed to be the murder weapon.
Yesterday, the police questioned the suspect, whose identity has not been made public.
In general, the number of crimes has fallen recently in New York, according to the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the local 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 decreased by 70 percent due to the coronavirus pandemic. (EFE)
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