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NYC subway stabbing, shooting, assault reported within hours of each other

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Updated  June 26, 2023 6:31pm EDT
NYC Subway
FOX 5 NY

Subway violence increases in June

Within the past 24 hours, there have been at least four different incidents of violence at four different stations. FOX 5 NY's Lisa Evers has more.

NEW YORK CITY - Three separate incidents within hours of each other on New York City subways sent multiple victims to the hospital, the NYPD said. The last 24 hours are a reminder that riders' safety worries are still front and center.

Sunday just after 8 p.m.

  • According to police, a 15-year-old boy was stabbed in his left hip aboard a northbound L train in Canarsie.
  • When the train stopped at the E 105th Street station, police said the suspect fled.
  • The victim was taken to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition.
  • This rider tells us, "I feel safe for myself, but I don't feel safe for like women and young people because there's a lot of people running around here that aren't mentally stable."
  • The suspect remains at large.

Sunday just after 9 p.m.

  • According to police, a 36-year-old man was shot in the left thigh on a southbound S train after he refused to hand over his wallet.
  • The suspect fled at the Beach 116th Street-Rockaway Park station, police said.
  • The victim was taken to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition.
  • This rider tells us, "I feel there needs to be more police officers at all the stations, because there is always something happening.
  • The suspect remains at large.

Monday just before 4 a.m.

  • According to police, a 27-year-old woman on a southbound A train in Bed-Stuy got into a verbal argument with four teenage girls, one of whom allegedly hit her in the head with an unknown object, which cut her.

String of weekend NYC subway attacks

New Yorkers are on edge after a weekend of knife violence in the New York City subway system.

  • She was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition.
  • This woman told FOX 5 NY's Lisa Evers she's constantly in fear of being targeted. "I get on the train, I get near the conductor because it's terrible."
  • The four teenage girls remain at large.

The attacks come following a recent rash of stabbings and slashings last week on the subway.

Kemal Rideout, 28, is facing three counts of 1st-degree assault for a string of unprovoked subway slashings.

Suspect in random subway slashings arrested

FOX 5 NY's Antwan Lewis has the details.

Police said Rideout slashed two women on the leg inside the subway station at 86th and Lexington Ave.

Police added he then rode the train south to the Brooklyn Bridge stop and slashed a third woman on her leg.

During last week's briefing, officials said NYPD transit officers were on patrol looking for the suspect, and found him.

The victims in all these incidents are expected to survive. Many riders FOX 5 spoke to told us it is the unpredictability of the violence that makes them uneasy, with that constant fear that anything could happen at any time.