{"id":10029,"date":"2025-10-20T22:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10029\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T22:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:17:25","slug":"homeless-man-arrested-for-knifing-commuter-on-rush-hour-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10029\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man arrested for knifing commuter on rush-hour subway"},"content":{"rendered":"

An emotionally disturbed homeless man with an extensive criminal history has been arrested for knifing a 51-year-old man in the back during an argument on a rush-hour subway train<\/a> rumbling through Manhattan, police said.<\/p>\n

Justice Jackson, 30, was apprehended Friday afternoon after he was identified as the assailant in the D train<\/a> attack that happened around 7:30 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n

Cops charged Jackson with assault. He was hospitalized shortly after his arrest, and his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court was pending, officials said.<\/p>\n

Jackson was on the Brooklyn-bound train as it pulled into the W. Fourth St. station in Greenwich Village when he got into an argument with a 51-year-old commuter. During the fight, Jackson pulled a knife and jammed it into the man\u2019s back, cops said.<\/p>\n

Wounded, the victim stumbled off the train when the doors opened, while his attacker remained on the subway as it headed downtown.<\/p>\n

The victim was conscious and talking to police when EMS rushed him to Bellevue Hospital<\/a>, where he was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n

Cops managed to identify Jackson through surveillance cameras in the subway system. A Manhattan warrants squad tracked him down and took him into custody.<\/p>\n

Police said Jackson had been arrested about a dozen times before, and is\u00a0believed to have a mental illness. Cops had been called at least 10 times to incidents in which Jackson was acting unstable, according a police source with knowledge of the case.<\/p>\n

The early-morning attack was the fourth stabbing to happen in Manhattan since Monday<\/a>, cops said. It was also the second to happen either in or right outside a Manhattan train station.<\/p>\n

It came in the wake of an assault outside a Lower East Side subway station on Monday<\/a>\u00a0by an alleged assailant with an extensive criminal history.<\/p>\n

Demitri Marshall, 32, was taken into custody around 5:30 p.m. that day, less than 12 hours after he attacked a 27-year-old man outside the East Broadway station near Canal and Essex Sts., authorities charged.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, a 41-year-old man was knifed in the back on W. 49th St. and Eighth Ave. in Hell\u2019s Kitchen.<\/p>\n

The still at-large assailant slashed the victim on the left side of his back around 8:50 p.m. Tuesday. EMS rushed the injured man to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n

In a separate incident, a 22-year-old man was stabbed in the back near the corner of E. 53rd St. and First Ave. around 12:40 a.m. Wednesday. He was rushed to Cornell Hospital and was in stable condition.<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made in that case.<\/p>\n

As of Oct. 12, assaults in the city were down by less than 1% for the year to date, officials said. Cops have investigated 23,397 assaults this year, 126 fewer than at this time last year, according to NYPD statistics.<\/p>\n

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