A 14-year-old woman was stabbed on a prepare in Manhattan on Sunday after she bought right into a dispute with two different teenage women she knew, cops mentioned.
The teenager was knifed throughout a battle on a southbound prepare close to the 191st Avenue station in Washington Heights round 4 p.m. — the newest violent incident inside the town’s transit system, in response to police.
The sufferer suffered a puncture wound to the chest and was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in steady situation, the NYPD mentioned.
A 13-year-old boy who was with the sufferer was additionally wounded however not stabbed, police and legislation enforcement sources mentioned.
No arrests have been made as authorities seek for two teenage women, police mentioned.
An MTA cleansing crew member, Walter R. Lewis III, informed The Put up on Sunday night the teenager woman was holding her aspect after she bought off the prepare.
“So evidently she was holding her aspect the entire time as a result of it occurred on the prepare and there was no blood path,” the 70-year-old mentioned.
“She mentioned she had historical past with the woman, whoever it was, that stabbed her,” Lewis added.
One other MTA employee, who didn't need to give their identify, mentioned the sufferer was “hysterical a bit” and had blood masking her sweater.
“I feel she was extra panicked than something,” the employee mentioned.
As violence in subway trains and on platforms improve, Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced Saturday the MTA Police Division and NYPD becoming a member of forces so as to add 1,200 additional extra time shifts day by day to observe over the subway system.
Their “Cops, Cameras, Care” initiative would translate into about 10,000 additional hours of cops patrolling subways.
The assault happened simply days after Adams used a CNN interview to downplay the town’s improve in violent subway crime — and blamed the information media for making a false “notion” that the state of affairs underground is uncontrolled.
“We now have a mean of lower than six crimes a day on a subway system with 3.5 million riders,” Adams informed CNN’s Chris Wallace.
“However in the event you write your story based mostly on a story, you then’re going to take a look at the worst of these six crimes and put it on the entrance pages of your paper daily.”
Hizzoner added: “So, I've to take care of these six crimes a day — felony crimes — and the notion of worry.”
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