QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) — A good Samaritan was injured while trying to defend a woman who was stabbed during a fight on a Queens subway train on Monday, according to law enforcement sources.
The woman, 47, was attacked while arguing with a man and a woman on the A train in the Rockaway Boulevard subway station at around 1 p.m., sources and police said.
The victim was stabbed in the back, and the good Samaritan, a 56-year-old man, was slashed on the finger when he intervened, according to sources.
The woman was taken to the hospital for treatment. The good Samaritan refused medical attention.
There have been no arrests.
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