Results tagged “subwayviolence”

The NY Post reported that on Friday night, a man dressed as the Grim Reaper slashed a tourist from New Hampshire on a 6 train. Around 9 p.m. near East 59th Street, Ismael Guevera allegedly "shoved a fake sickle in" Lee Dutton's "girlfriend's face". Dutton told him, "You don't need to be doing this," prompting Guevera to take out a boxcutter and slash Dutton's neck, just missing his jugular vein. Guevera also allegedly yelled, "Who's next? Who wants to start s--- next?" Dutton and his girlfriend got out at 68th Street, and Guevera was arrested at 96th Street. Dutton told the Post, "His intentions were definitely there, he just didn't succeed too well."

The 17-year-old girl who filmed the filmed a group of teen girls beating up a subway rider on an A train last month has met with the police yesterday. Kajdera Holmes's lawyer told the Daily News, "She regrets not doing more to help the victim." Ward has also said that Holmes, who was arrested in September for assaulting a 24-year-old woman on a J train, had nothing to do with the attack, though she and...

We take this to be definitive proof that the video of a group of teen girls beating a man on an A train was not staged: The victim has emerged. Rafael Cruz, a 27-year-old Brooklyn resident who is a manager at a Midtown H&M, told the Post, "I'm trying to get over it. It happened a month ago." Cruz isn't sure if he will press charges, noting, "Teenagers are allowed to make mistakes, but...

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