For the record, if someone is harassing me about my bag when their is a ton of seats, they deserve to be punched. That doesn't mean he deserved to be stabbed in the throat and killed though.

That guy was looking to start trouble. The train was not that packed.

Also for the record. Homeless isn't always what it seems. He is a person with a family and friends. Just because he had the appearance of being homeless doesn't mean people have the right to do whatever they want, including stabbing him or pushing him around.

Oh and he has a name, its DWIGHT JOHNSON. May he rest in peace.

had a feeling it might have been a homeless guy with all the bags and on the train late at night.

but why would you want to sit near a guy with a bunch of overstuffed shopping bags?

so either way, looks like Old NY is back. Record Homeless people.

Wait, I just read the daily news article. It says right in it:

The 36-year-old Johnson, believed to be homeless, refused and punched Sanchez in the face. Sanchez pulled out a steak knife and stabbed him several times in the neck and face, cops said.

Why is this not mentioned in the original article on Gothamist or in any of the comments? That changes the story drastically, this guy didn't just randomly stab someone to death for not giving him a seat, he was punched and attacked by the guy.

Shoddy reporting Gothamist...

hipsters and yuppys { sigh } this year is starting to remind me of the 80-90 i think nyc is coming back =0) a couple more of these senerios and the yuppys/hipsters might actually go back to there fashionable lifestyles in south dakota and ohio

WTF are you talking about? I can't even fathom what is going on in the rotted marshmallow you call a brain. What does a stabbing by some homeless people have to do with hipsters and yuppies? "NYC is coming back :0)?" Seriously? I sure miss those murderin' days! Are you trying to sound "hip" or "with it?" Perhaps you are over the age of 80, and think this will ingratiate yourself to the youngins. "You're" tenuous grasp of the English language points to the other direction, the one where you're more like 13 and sneaking on to the website. But I can't. I can't. "Your" just too fucking dumb. There are some morons on the internet, but I crown you King Moron of the 21st century. Congrats!

Shut the fuck up. Not everything is about "yuppies and hipsters", infact hardly anything is. Do you often see lots of "hipsters" and "yuppies" on the D train?

Let's all hope you enjoy "Old New York" when you get stabbed on the train for not moving your bag. Hopefully it'll be on an elevated line and during your last moments of life you can take out your cell phone and post a comment on gothamist about how great it is that violent crime in NYC is increasing.

"Maybe this will stop the condo boom!"

Seriously shut the fuck up.

Valid point.

It worked in Miami 15 years ago when a few Euro tourists were murdered. Chased them all away for years.

And look at how great Miami is now!

great story. looks like someone learned the hard way a good lesson about civility.

yeah, he learned? he's dead, how could he learn something when he's dead? maybe the killer will learn something about going batshit crazy, in jail, when he's someone's bitch.

According to the police, criminal activity is way down in the city... riiiight.

The trains are crowded on weekend nights because cabs are too expensive. Plus, last night was a nice night, warm, and a lot of people were out.

I took the F home at 330AM and it was rather crowded.

The Post reports that "the killer was standing over his bloodied victim when the doors opened."

The Daily News reports that the killer was sitting in a seat pretending to be "just another passenger."

That one wasn't supposed to be a reply. But of course the "replying" box was still checked because I hadn't taken the extra step of reloading the page.

Don't you just love MovableType? And now that Gothamist has been using it for years, they're locked in, unless they can find better software with some kind of database migration assistant.

According to the Post article, there were "some two dozen riders" in the car. So not really crowded, and there would have been other seats. He apparently wanted that particular seat, or perhaps just used the fact that there were bags on it because he wanted to pick a fight.

Over a seat? Wow, what's the world come to.

it over the lack of civility which commuters deal with on a daily basis. He snapped

This is awful.

Not a big fan of the car locking. Over the summer I was on the 6 when a fight broke out. The conductor locked the car and because the aggressor couldn't get out he went nuts and started punching random people. We were locked in for close to ten minutes with this maniac until the police showed up. I shudder to think what could have happened that night if the man had a knife.