{"id":7100,"date":"2025-10-17T23:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7100\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T23:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:50:11","slug":"homeless-emotionally-disturbed-stranger-stabs-man-51-inside-nyc-subway-station-during-rush-hour-clash-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7100\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless &#8217;emotionally disturbed&#8217; stranger stabs man, 51, inside NYC subway station during rush hour clash: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A homeless, \u201cemotionally disturbed\u201d man with nearly a dozen prior busts stabbed a 51-year-old straphanger inside a Greenwich Village subway station during the Thursday morning rush \u2013 knifing him in the back moments after the two feuded on board a train, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The two men \u2013 who did not know each other \u2013 clashed on board a Brooklyn-bound D train at West 4th Street around 7:30 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>As the pair got off the train, the suspect \u2013 later identified as Justice Jackson, 30 \u2014 knifed the victim in the back, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3989071;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37414478\" width=\"825\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/police-car-ambulance-seen-west-103728759.jpg\" alt=\"A police car and an ambulance are seen at the West 4th St. subway station in Manhattan, Friday, May 2, 2025. A man was stabbed on an F train during an argument with another person. \" class=\"wp-image-37414478\"  \/>Justice Jackson, 30, allegedly stabbed a 51-year-old man in the back during a clash on board a southbound D train Thursday morning, cops said. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken by EMS workers to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jackson \u2014 seen in a surveillance image wearing dark gray sweatpants, a black shirt and black slippers \u2014 hopped back on the train, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested more than 24 hours after the attack \u2013 around 1 p.m. Friday \u2013 and charged with both felony and misdemeanor assault, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jackson has 11 previous arrests on his record \u2014 and is known as both a grand larceny recidivist and a repeat offender in the city\u2019s transit system, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37414479\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/people-wait-trains-b-d-85605684.jpg\" alt=\"People wait for trains on the B,D,F,M platform at West 4th Street station during subway delays on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 in New York City. \" class=\"wp-image-37414479\"  \/>Jackson, who is homeless, has nearly a dozen prior arrests and is a known \u201cemotionally disturbed person,\u201d sources said.  Michael Nagle<\/p>\n<p>His last arrest was in July, for three separate grand larceny cases, according to the sources. <\/p>\n<p>Police also responded to 10 incidents involving Jackson as an \u201cemotionally disturbed person,\u201d according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>He was hospitalized following his Friday arrest, according to police, but it was not immediately clear why.<\/p>\n<p>Felony assaults within the city\u2019s transit system have seen a slight uptick so far this year, with 453 reported compared to the 445 at this time in 2024, according to the latest NYPD data, released on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, overall <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/13\/us-news\/stranger-randomly-slashes-man-leaving-nyc-subway-station-amid-spate-of-underground-violence-cops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">felony crime on the rails is down by about 4%<\/a>, with 1,639 incidents reported compared to 1,706 during the same time last year, statistics show.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homeless, \u201cemotionally disturbed\u201d man with nearly a dozen prior busts stabbed a 51-year-old straphanger inside a Greenwich&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,2519,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,2442,1687,129,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-7100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-greenwich-village","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-stabbings","18":"tag-subways","19":"tag-the-bronx","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100","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=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}