[UPDATE] Double Stabbing Suspect Jumped In Front Of Subway At Prospect Park Station

The scene earlier today (via a Gothamist tipper).

This may explain some of the train delays today: The police were investigating a customer injury that caused delays on the F and the G lines. It appears that someone jumped in front of a train at the 15th Street/Prospect Park station in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Trains should be running again now. The condition of the victim is unclear, but we're hearing that he may have stabbed two people before jumping in front of the train. Update below.

UPDATE: Early reports are now implying that the man jumped in front of a G train after stabbing two people—a man and a woman, likely his parents. The victims were both taken to Methodist hospital where the woman was declared dead on arrival and the man is said to be in very critical condition. The condition of the jumper remains unclear.

UPDATE 2: The Daily News adds a little bit more info: The stabbings took place around 8:15 a.m. in the victim's Howard Place residence and while the parents were taken to Methodist Hospital, the alleged stabber was taken to Lutheran Medical Center where he is in critical condition.

Meanwhile a tipster sends in this grisly report from the scene which verifies the jumper's reported condition:

I was on the F train right behind the G train that the guy jumped in front of. As we were exiting through the F train and then onto the G train and then onto the platform, I could hear the man screaming under the train and the cops on the platform were reassuring him that they would get to him soon. So I don't think he died immediately and seemed to be under the last G train car.

On the scene at Howard Place, The Post found a neighbor who reports there "was blood everywhere" after the attack.

UPDATE 3: We have more coverage here.

Contact the author of this article or email tips@gothamist.com with further questions, comments or tips.

By Garth Johnston in News on December 13, 2010 10:40 AM

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Caresse Singh

Omg this was so bizarre. I was the on the F train at Church Ave and we were delayed for about 25 minutes. No one said anything apart from two separate announcements set at about a half hour apart. First it was that "a passenger was sick" then it was "a police investigation."

Luckily I ran into my cousin and her husband as people were exiting the train station and they drove us all to another train and I got to work and found out about this.

But yeah, 15th street/Prospect Park has always been very safe, it's completely uncharacteristic for something like this to happen there.

Jhonn Thomassen

I was also on the F train directly behind the G. After we shuffled onto the G train and got off onto the platform, I was pretty sure I heard moaning from under the train where all the police were huddled around, but it could have been a bystander nearby. Not exactly a typical Monday morning in Windsor Terrace, at any rate...

goth beer and ale

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alassine

I was there on the platform this morning staring at this G train that had stopped just as it was entering the station and wondering what was going on. There was so much confusion and no cops or firemen had arrived yet. Then a G train came in on the other side and stopped and the conductor told us that he heard someone jumped onto the platform at Kings Highway. Either he was misinformed, or trying not to cause panic because the stabber was definitely under the train right across the platform!

MTA - why was there no shuttle bus this morning???? I waited an hour for the B61 to take me to 4th ave. 9th st. and they were all full!

BK Phil

I was mid-platform, and a full 20 minutes after the G train had mysteriously stopped halfway in, we had no idea whatsoever what was going on.

No screams heard, no screeching brakes, nothing.

Above all, not one announcement.