Two people were cut, including a man who was fighting with a stranger teen over a seat, and a person breaking into the subway with a loaded gun was caught on Tuesday, police said.
There was a fight between a 52-year-old man and a 19-year-old girl over seating on a northbound No. 6 train at Lexington Avenue and East 51st Street at 3:20 p.m., and the girl got very angry, according to the police.
Police and sources say Chambers cut the man on the left side of his face, close to his ear.
Police say Chambers stayed on the train and made it to the East 125th Street station in Harlem, where she was arrested. The injured man was being treated at the scene of the crime.
Police said Chambers was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon, and harassment.
After several hours, just after 11 p.m., police say a man slashed a woman across the face in the 125th Street station at St. Nicholas Avenue.
The victim was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside and was said to be in stable condition there. Police said she was an adult, but no one knew how old she was.
Police say the person who attacked her ran away and had not been caught by Wednesday. The last person who was seen wearing a black hoodie with a multicolored flower was.
Police said they did not know why the two attack each other or if they knew each other.
Other news: late Tuesday afternoon, police said they caught a man in a Bronx subway station with a loaded, tampered-with Palmetto State Armory TA-15 rifle.
Police and sources say that 20-year-old Abraham Sosa snuck behind a “No trespassing” sign and made his way toward a tunnel in the Kingsbridge Road B and D train station around 4:30 p.m., but he was stopped in his tracks by alert officers.
Then, Sosa is said to have lost it and started fighting with the police officers. Two of them were hurt, but not seriously, police said.
Police say the gun fell out of Sosa’s backpack during the fight.
At the same time, a man aged 21 joined the fight and allegedly kicked one of the police officers’ body cameras onto the subway tracks.
Police say the man, whose name was Christopher Mayren, also took one of the officers’ cell phones.
Police say Sosa was charged with several offenses including resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, criminal trespass, assault on a police officer, and second-degree assault. He was also charged with 25 counts of having bullets on him.
A police report said that Mayren was charged with obstructing government administration, criminal mischief, criminal possession of stolen property, petit larceny, aggravated harassment, and harassment.
So far this year, there have been 1,807 reports of felony crimes in the city’s transit system, compared to 1,928 at this point in 2023, according to the most recent data from the NYPD, which was updated on Sunday.
Despite this, the number of murders has gone up from five in 2023 to nine this year, and the number of rapes has gone up from four to six.
There have been more shootings on the rails. Eleven people have been hurt in six incidents, up from five people hurt in four shootings last year.
The number of gun arrests has gone up a lot. There have been 65 at this point, compared to 39 at this point in 2023.
