Subway Stabber Police Sketch Released

WPIX

Investigators are still searching for any surveillance video of the man who fatally stabbed two men and injured another on the No. 2 train Sunday morning, but they have finally released a description of the suspect, along with a police sketch. According to the NYPD, the suspect is an Hispanic male approximately 25-years-old, standing between 5'10" - 6'0" tall with a medium build. WPIX reports that he was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans and a black leather waist length jacket.

The violence broke out around 5 a.m. as a group of ten friends were riding to Brooklyn after partying at a Bryant Park club. One of the men tried to toss a bag of beer bottles out of the train as it stopped at the 14th Street Station, but instead, the garbage hit an unidentified man boarding the train with his friends. The assailant took it personally and quickly flew into a homicidal rage. Darnell Morel of Newark and his friend Ricardo Williams were stabbed to death, and the perp is believed to have fled at the Christopher Street station, which does not have surveillance cameras.

In the aftermath of the stabbing and the Moscow subway bombing, the MTA has announced that 900 new surveillance cameras are on their way, and should be installed throughout the system by June. (There are 4,313 security cameras throughout the system, but more than 2,000 of them are inoperable.) The new cameras will be focused on the turnstiles, and are expected to bring the number of functional surveillance cameras to approximately 3,000. In the meantime, New Yorkers like Cynthia Jones are freaked; she tells the Daily News, "I'm going to carry a bat."

Even Mayor Bloomberg is troubled about Big Brother's absence, telling reporters yesterday, "It concerns me a great deal. A lot of those cameras don't work, and someday maybe we're going to get very badly hurt because of it." Sure, you can scoff at the Mayor's choice of words ("someday," or "we") but he rides his Chevy Suburban motorcade to the subway with his entourage just like everybody else!

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By John Del Signore in News on March 31, 2010 1:08 PM

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Krooklyn

the death is horrible. I mean, just horrible. If someone threw a bottle, wait, a bag of bottles at me? I'd be kicking their ass all over that subway station. I don't care if it was an accident. You shouldn't be throwing anything, not a lone a bag of bottles off a subway. Death although is a harsh price to pay for being stupid. But it's also a common price to pay for being stupid. Sad, but stupid.

Petey

sounds like a case of criminals fighting. The two deceased both have records.

horseplay

Im sure everyone knows this, but in 1990 there was 2,245 homicides in nyc. No other city or state has ever seen those #s in murders. Its 2010, so can anyone tell me why kelly, bloomberg and the media feel the need to downplay everything by reffering to 1990?

Guest

...formerly known as "no crackers", "broadway", and "rocko".

Guest

y'know, you're being a coward by double-playing. fear-givers usually are.

...but then again, that's trolls for ya.

Guest

*is not going to...

what time is it? 4? sigh...

horseplay

Well, for alot of people, the media plays the role of a naive idiot's own conscience and i am not one. But i am very concerned for people who do believe the shit

Guest

if you're really that concerned, you may advocate awareness programs. it's just better than just worrying. putting fear in people are not going to produce any progress, at all--there's a fine line between common sense and just senseless fear.

horseplay

Yeah but, this is nyc. According to bloomberg and ray kelly up until recently, there was nomore crime in the city. They have out of towners and tourists thinking that there is more crime in malibu than nyc.

bigmikebrooklyn

Not in my beach community!

stay out of malibu deadbeat!

stay out of malibu Stabowski!

theevilone

Um, crime is down, not nonexistent. Anyone with half a brain knows that, including Bloomberg and Kelly.

Guest

thanks for clarifying that. sometimes i feel like i'm in a whirlwind. wooosh... wooosh...

Guest

i pity the fool who listens to politicians and puts trust in them.

i don't think out of towners and tourists will drop their common sense over some 'promise' some lunatic politicians made up. i'm not the only one... right?

...uhm, really, i'm not the only one who's not naive here, i hope...?

uh... eeek!

Guest

seriously, one has more chance of being at ease with even some douchebag god that they made up than to have faith in politicians.

like me, i have a subway god. and he makes my trains appear when i want them to, although lately he hasn't been carrying out his duties, but his success rate is far beyond most politicians.

or try jesus--and i'd be the last person to advocate christianity. it's just better... than politics.

potsmoker

im not shocked this happened, how often do you see a pack of ten knuckleheads intimidate a single rider.

they picked the wrong rider to mess with and got the leaky leaky.

horseplay

Im still in shock that something like this happened in a city like ny. Im sure im not the only one who has been under the impression that there was nomore crime in nyc

Guest

it takes time. as a native, i'm still hopeful. :)

Guest

otherwise, i wouldn't still be here. hahahahaha

gagneur

That sketch looks a lot like Todd Bridges from Facts of Life. He did go downhill after it got canceled.

emilydickinson

I'm not condoning murder, but the story seems a little suspect. I imagine the scenario was more akin to a bunch of drunk guys just left a club, bombed out of their minds. They continued drinking on the train, thus the bag of beer bottles. They were rowdy, and decided to get tough and throw the bottles at a guy on the train to start a little trouble. The guy who got hit with the bottles felt threatened, because it was 10 drunk guys against him, and he pulled out a knife to defend himself.