Deadly stabbing on MTA bus in the Bronx, 3rd mass transit killing in 10 days

NEW YORK - In the third killing in the New York City mass transit system in 10 days, a man was stabbed to death inside an MTA bus in the Bronx on Sunday evening. Police have one suspect in custody. 

Lamont Barkley, 55, of the Bronx, was on the BX19 bus at the intersection of E. 149th St and Gerard Ave. in the Mott Haven neighborhood just before 8:30 p.m. on Sunday when he was stabbed in the torso.

EMS rushed him to NYC Health & Hospitals/Lincoln but it was too late to save his life.

The NYPD said Barkley got into some sort of dispute with a woman and a man on the bus, who then stabbed him and fled.

Police on Monday arrested Ebony Jackson, 42, of the Bronx, and charged her with murder and manslaughter. The NYPD said the man remained on the loose on Tuesday morning.

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Two other men have been stabbed to death in the NYC subway station in the past 10 days.

A man was stabbed to death on a subway platform Thursday evening in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx.

A 38-year-old man was getting off a northbound No. 4 train onto the platform at around 8:30 p.m. when a man stabbed him multiple times in the back and chest with a large knife and then ran off. Police said the attack was unprovoked.

A week earlier, a construction worker was stabbed to death on a Brooklyn L train.

Tommy Bailey, 43, was stabbed to death. Alvin Charles, a homeless man, is charged with murder in that case.

MTA Chairman Janno Lieber attended a wake for Bailey on Monday. He told reporters that he spoke with NYPD leaders about crime in the transit system.

"I talked with the police commissioner. I talked to the chief of department," Lieber said. "They're actually thinking about additional things they can do, additional steps they can take that will both raise the level of safety by raising the presence and visibility of officers."