The NYPD reported that the victim, a 64-year-old MTA worker, spotted a man walking along the southbound tracks' roadbed inside the tunnel. Law enforcement sources reported that the employee confronted the trespasser, instructing him to leave the area, but the pair got into a dispute. The suspect became enraged, police said, and slashed the worker across his neck before fleeing further into the tunnel.
Cops say a 31-year-old man entered a crowded train and accidentally bumped into the suspect. Becoming enraged, the perpetrator yelled something the victim did not understand before pulling a sharp object from his backpack. Law enforcement sources said the brute then slashed the commuter across his face and left wrist as the train, then departed at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn stop before officers from the 84th Precinct and NYPD Transit District 30 could apprehend him.
Zine Raksasutee, 26, was brutally attacked at a Brooklyn subway station by Lewis Doctor, 54, who allegedly grabbed her throat and punched her repeatedly.