NYC subway crime: Particular person stabbed at East Harlem 116th St station
EAST HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) — Police have arrested a 30-year-old man after a younger woman was slashed exterior a subway station in East Harlem on Friday afternoon.
The suspect, 30-year-old Saquan Cummings, was charged with assault, performing in a fashion injurious to a baby lower than 17 years outdated and two counts of prison possession of a weapon.
The incident he is charged in unfolded close to the Lexington Avenue 116th Avenue station round 2:15 p.m.
Police say the sufferer, an 11-year-old woman, was slashed behind the top exterior the station. The slasher then fled into the station.
The woman was seen on a stretcher being taken to an ambulance with a bandage wrapped round her head. She was visibly shaken up.
The sufferer was taken to Harlem Hospital with non-life-threatening accidents.
The scene exterior the station was nothing lower than chaotic.
Inside, police performed an investigation centering largely across the tracks, the place NYPD proof assortment officers grabbed what gave the impression to be a yellow field cutter off of the tracks.
MTA worker Mario Barber described his encounter with the suspect, who was telling him {that a} group of individuals had been attempting to beat him up and kill him. That each one apparently occurred after the alleged assault of that younger woman.
That MTA employee additionally described his effort to attempt to detain the suspect till police arrived.
“Any person yelled that he stabbed somebody, so I instantly grabbed him and held him for police, however after that he managed to get away, when he received away, I received him to the turnstile and he managed to get away the second time, the third a gaggle of individuals caught him and beat him up,” Barber mentioned.
The group of individuals had been salivating over the possibility to get their arms on the suspect.
“Once we sense hazard, particularly when it entails a younger little one, particularly slightly woman, the entire hood will begin popping out,” mentioned Harlem resident Renel David. “Just like the Avengers come to avenge, particularly a small little one.”
It is because of the MTA employee and different good Samaritans that police had been in a position to take the suspect into custody.
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