{"id":234874,"date":"2026-05-18T01:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234874\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:33:16","slug":"tattooed-man-selling-swipes-wanted-for-slashing-commuter-inside-midtown-subway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234874\/","title":{"rendered":"Tattooed man selling swipes wanted for slashing commuter inside Midtown subway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"576\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1204-26-Assault-MTN-Pct_photo-1.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"surviellance photo of mane wering blue sweatshirt and has dark hair\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Tattooed man selling swipes wanted for slashing commuter inside Midtown subway station 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police say they are still looking for a tattooed maniac who slashed a commuter in a Midtown subway station during the early hours of Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Police said they are still looking for a tattooed maniac who slashed a commuter in a Midtown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/bronx-subway-slashing-01192026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">subway station<\/a> early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives released surveillance images of the suspect, who they said viciously slashed a man after a verbal dispute. Cops said the incident unfolded at 12:50 a.m. on May 15 inside the 49 Street subway station that houses the N, R and W lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the investigation report that the suspect was selling entries to the station when a 35-year-old man declined, and the pair got into a verbal dispute. Things escalated when the perpetrator slashed the would-be rider with a box cutter across his neck.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137849093\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1204-26-Assault-MTN-Pct_photo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"720\" title=\"Tattooed man selling swipes wanted for slashing commuter inside Midtown subway station 2\"\/>Police say they are still looking for a tattooed maniac who slashed a commuter in a Midtown subway station during the early hours of Friday morning.NYPD<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the victim to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition and expected to survive. The suspect was last seen wearing a blue sweatshirt and a white jacket. He wore a ponytail and had multiple face tattoos. He fled the station following the attack.<\/p>\n<p>He remains at large.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org,\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org,<\/a>\u00a0or on X (formerly Twitter)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nyc.gov\/nypd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say they are still looking for a tattooed maniac who slashed a commuter in a Midtown subway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[303,75,84,83,9,24,63,103,104,8603,615],"class_list":["post-234874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-crime","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-slashing","tag-subway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234874","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=234874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}