{"id":47517,"date":"2025-11-21T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47517\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:07:11","slug":"maniac-who-slashed-men-on-nyc-subway-platform-finally-charged-after-homeless-shelter-tantrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47517\/","title":{"rendered":"Maniac who slashed men on NYC subway platform finally charged after homeless shelter tantrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The maniac who allegedly slashed two men in their faces in a wild, caught-on-video outburst on a busy Queens subway platform this week was busted after he allegedly threw a tantrum at the homeless shelter where he\u2019d been staying, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Tyquan Manassa, 28, was charged Friday with four counts of assault in connection to the Wednesday afternoon attack on two men on the southbound platform of the E and F train at the Union Turnpike station in Kew Gardens, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>During Manassa\u2019s rampage, he allegedly approached a 42-year-old man from behind and slashed him with an \u201cunknown sharp object\u201d on the forehead, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37729816\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3-men-assaulted-2-victims-115755441_9c8267.jpg\" alt=\"Victims Carlos Plasencia and Gjon Oroshi, with visible facial injuries, on the Union Turnpike-Kew Gardens subway platform.\" class=\"wp-image-37729816\"  \/>Tyquan Manassa is accused of slashing two men in the face at the Union Turnpike station in Kew Gardens. Juan Arellano<\/p>\n<p>He then turned on a 50-year-old man, who he also cut across his face, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shows both victims appearing stunned and holding tissues to their bleeding wounds, as concerned straphangers surrounded them on the bustling platform.<\/p>\n<p>One Good Samaritan was seen graciously holding pressure to one of the victim\u2019s forehead as he made a phone call.<\/p>\n<p>The two men were transported to local hospitals in stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.37361111;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37729611\" width=\"220\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1515-hours-southbound-e-train-115816652.jpg\" alt=\"A still from security footage showing a dark-skinned man in a black jacket and black pants, with a &quot;CRIME stoppers&quot; logo overlay.\" class=\"wp-image-37729611\"  \/>28-year-old Manassa \u2014 who been staying at a homeless shelter \u2014 was charged Friday with four counts of assault. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>Manassa was connected to the crime after cops nabbed him for an unhinged outburst at the Ward\u2019s Island shelter, where he\u2019d been staying, around 5:30 a.m. Thursday, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>In that case, he allegedly started turning over tables, knocking over water and an ice machine, throwing a fire extinguisher and turning over a bed with someone sleeping in it, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The maniac who allegedly slashed two men in their faces in a wild, caught-on-video outburst on a busy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5357,57,9,56,63,65,64,362,1687,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-47517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-attacks","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-subway-slashings","16":"tag-subways","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47517","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=47517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}