— had just rejected the suspect’s advances before he pounced on her while shouting anti-Muslim slurs, police said Wednesday.
The knife-wielding brute, who remains on the loose, apparently got enraged when the woman ignored him on an Eighth Ave.-bound L train at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.A woman and a good Samaritan were slashed on a Union Square subway platform Tuesday night.A 29-year-old bystander came to the woman’s aid — prompting the attacker to turn on him and slash him in the head multiple times, police said.The suspect fled the station,on the platform at the Union Square station.
Police said a good Samaritan was slashed in the head when he tried to help a woman who was first slashed at a Union Square subway station Tuesday night.Police did not divulge details of the anti-Muslim slur, but said the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force has been notified about the incident. The attack came less than a half-hour after another straphanger was stabbed on a Manhattan train while defending himself from a would-be robber.
The 34-year-old man had been riding a southbound F train near the 34th Street-Herald Square station when a stranger approached, asked for a cigarette and then tried to rob him, authorities said.As the two men fought, the suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim twice in the stomach. When the train pulled into the station, the tussle spilled onto the platform, where the attacker stabbed the man again before taking off, authorities said.
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