{"id":188791,"date":"2026-04-07T21:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188791\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:08:36","slug":"masked-stranger-randomly-slashes-boy-15-multiple-times-on-nyc-train-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188791\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked stranger randomly slashes boy, 15, multiple times on NYC train: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A masked stranger randomly slashed a 15-year-old boy multiple times across the face during a terrifying morning commute attack on a Queens subway, cops and sources said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The boy was riding a Manhattan-bound A train passing through the Rockaways around 7:15 a.m. on Monday, March 30, when the menace suddenly knifed him repeatedly, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker \u2013 believed to be between 15 and 18 years old himself \u2013 then got off the train at the Broad Channel Station and fled, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.35138889;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39015930\" width=\"207\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0715-hours-unidentified-individual-slashed-125169783.jpg\" alt=\"The ruthless suspect knifed the teen multiple times in the face on board an A train passing through the Rockaways March 30, authorities said.\" class=\"wp-image-39015930\"  \/>The ruthless suspect knifed the teen multiple times in the face on board an A train passing through the Rockaways March 30, authorities said. NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The pair did not know each other and did not exchange words before the brutal assault, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The young victim was taken by responding EMS workers to St. John\u2019s Episcopal Hospital in stable condition, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A photo released by the NYPD on Monday showed the slender suspect, described as having a dark complexion and brown eyes, bundled up in a black winter coat, wearing a blue surgical mask, blue jeans and black shoes.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39015932\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/125170189.jpg\" alt=\"The ruthless suspect knifed the teen multiple times in the face on board an A train passing through the Rockaways March 30, authorities said.\" class=\"wp-image-39015932\"  \/>The victim did not know his attacker, sources said. catalin \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>He was still on the loose Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The attack closed out a month that the NYPD said <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/02\/us-news\/murders-down-hate-crimes-up-in-nyc-new-nypd-crime-stats-reveal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brought a 1% dip in crime on the rails<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decline marked a hopeful trend after January and February brought an upward bump in subway crime \u2013 as cold weather policies prevented officers from booting rule-breaking passengers from the subways.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the attack on the teen is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A masked stranger randomly slashed a 15-year-old boy multiple times across the face during a terrifying morning commute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[303,75,84,83,57,9,24,63,122,361,1687,19147,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-188791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-slashings","18":"tag-subways","19":"tag-trains","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}