Police are looking for two suspects in separate violent attacks inside Manhattan subway stations on Tuesday — with one man stabbing a victim in the head, and another who shoved a woman onto the tracks.
The first incident occurred at the 28th Street station at around 5:30 p.m., when the suspect blasted a 50-year-old straphanger in the face with a chemical liquid, before stabbing him several times in the head with a metal object.
Police say the suspect then hopped onto the 6 train tracks, and ran across to the downtown platform, before fleeing the station following the unprovoked attack.
Paramedics rushed to the scene in Gramercy Park and took the bloodied victim to Bellevue Hospital for treatment, where he is expected to recover from his wounds.
The suspect was last seen wearing an orange sweatshirt and black shorts.
Hours later, at around 11 p.m., a different suspect pushed a 34-year-old woman onto the tracks of the Chambers Street station in Tribeca.
Luckily, straphangers who witnessed the horrifying episode snapped into action, and helped pull the victim back onto the platform of the downtown 1/2/3 lines before the next train arrived.
EMS arrived on the scene and took the woman to New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital for treatment of a minor leg injury, according to police.
The suspect, who was last seen wearing dark clothing and light-colored boots, fled before police arrived.
Police did not release motives for either attack, and no arrests have been made.
Anyone with information in regard to these incidents is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website or on Twitter.
