{"id":362066,"date":"2026-10-01T18:50:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362066\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:50:46","slug":"man-arrested-in-fatal-stabbing-of-subway-rider-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362066\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in fatal stabbing of subway rider in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; A Bronx man was arrested Wednesday night, hours after he allegedly stabbed another man to death at a subway station in Queens, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, Mesias Lojano, 59, was stabbed at the Woodhaven Boulevard station in Woodhaven around 5:20 p.m. after an argument on a J train spilled out onto the platform, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Lojano was stabbed multiple times with a kitchen knife and pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Following a manhunt, NYPD officers tracked down the suspect, Jyrell Thomas, 25, to a nearby rooftop, where he was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Thomas is emotionally disturbed and was undergoing a psychological evaluation. He faces charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>A witness who spoke with ABC 7 described hearing the suspect express remorse after the attack. &#8220;He was saying he was sorry, that he didn&#8217;t want to do that,&#8221; the witness said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what the two men were arguing about at the time. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; A Bronx man was arrested Wednesday night, hours after he allegedly stabbed another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,261,122,124,123,615],"class_list":["post-362066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-subway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362066","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=362066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}