{"id":362072,"date":"2026-10-01T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362072\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:56:10","slug":"nyc-madman-arrested-after-fatally-stabbing-straphanger-during-argument-on-rush-hour-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362072\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC madman arrested after fatally stabbing straphanger during argument on rush-hour subway"},"content":{"rendered":"

A shoeless madman was charged Thursday with murder for allegedly stabbing another straphanger<\/a> to death in an unprovoked spurt of violence on a Queens train \u2013 as harrowing video of the bloody attack<\/a> shows terrified riders scrambling off the subway car.<\/p>\n

Jyrell Thomas, 25, allegedly whipped out a knife and plunged it into Mesias Lojano, 59, without warning \u2013 stabbing him three times in the torso and once in the neck \u2013 on board the packed southbound J train approaching Woodhaven Boulevard around 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, police and sources said.<\/p>\n

The gravely wounded Lojano, of Ozone Park, was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he later died, police said.<\/p>\n

Jyrell Thomas, armed with a knife, allegedly fatally stabs Mesias Lojano aboard the J train at the Woodhaven Boulevard station in Queens, Sept. 30, 2026. El Viejito\/Facebook<\/p>\n

The shoeless madman was charged with Lojano\u2019s murder. El Viejito\/Facebook<\/p>\n

Disturbing video posted by a straphanger to Facebook shows panicked commuters frantically fleeing the rush-hour train \u2013 where a shoeless Thomas is seen knifing Lojano repeatedly while he\u2019s on the ground of the subway car, near its doors.<\/p>\n

The victim tried to shield himself from the blade \u2013 with his hand covered in blood as the callous stabber pulled him by his hoodie out of the car, left him on the platform and then ran off.<\/p>\n

The knife-wielding attacker then rushed down the stairs of the elevated station \u2013 behind other commuters including a mother and child \u2013 as the witness filming the incident yelled in English and Spanish for someone to grab the weapon.<\/p>\n

A group of men, including the person filming, then ran after the suspect \u2013 who sprinted out into the street and finally perched himself on a garage roof, before police cuffed him.<\/p>\n

Thomas \u2013 a Bronx resident who did not know Lojano \u2013 was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon and hospitalized, according to police, though it was not clear why.<\/p>\n

Police officers work at a crime scene at the Woodhaven Boulevard subway station in Queens, New York, after a passenger was stabbed and killed on a J train. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n

The deadly violence initially appeared to have stemmed from a dispute, but police confirmed Thursday the attack was unprovoked.<\/p>\n

Thomas has one previous arrest from early September \u2013 for allegedly stealing $23 worth of merchandise from a Bronx Target store and then attempting to flee from cops, according to cops and sources.<\/p>\n

He was charged with petit larceny, obstruction of governmental administration and criminal possession of stolen property, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shoeless madman was charged Thursday with murder for allegedly stabbing another straphanger to death in an unprovoked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,141,238,9,56,63,65,64,362,1687,58],"class_list":["post-362072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-mta","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-subway-slashings","tag-subways","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362072","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=362072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}