Violent Spree Against Homeless People in Subway Leaves 2 Dead – The New York Times
The first killing was just after 11 p.m. Friday on a subway train in Queens: The police found a man, apparently homeless, dead from stab wounds to the neck and torso, slumped on a seat. The second was two hours later and 25 miles away, but on the same New York City subway line: a 44-year-old woman, also apparently homeless, stabbed throughout her body underneath a seat on a train at a station in Upper Manhattan. There was nearly a third killing at a third subway station, when a 43-year-old homeless man sleeping on an exit stairwell was awakened by a sharp pain in his back. He, too, had been stabbed. He ran to a bank, collapsed and was in stable condition at a hospital, the police said. All three attacks, the police say, were likely committed by the same person. And they may be linked to an earlier nonfatal attack on Friday morning, in which an assailant yelled, “I’m going to kill you,” then stabbed a 67-year-old homeless man in the knee and buttocks as he pushed his walker on a train platform.