“Train Ripper A” is under arrest, several law enforcement sources reported Saturday night in The Post.
The madman with knives is wanted on a horrible subway train that left two homeless people dead and two others slipped along line A of the train that was caught in Upper Manhattan, sources said.
His shoes were still splattered with blood from the victims when he was arrested and still had the raw knife, a source added.
The still-named suspect was detained in the 34th District of Washington Heights, sources said.
The bloodshed sparked a safer per-meter outcry and New York City Commissioner Dermot Shea responded by announcing a “rise” of an additional 500 police officers for the department’s traffic office that will be deployed immediately in the city.
The splendor began Friday morning, not far from where the alleged assailant was captured, authorities said.
At 11:30 a.m., a 67-year-old man was stabbed as he pushed his walker down the southbound platform at 181st Street Station of Train A in Washington Heights.
“And I’ll kill you!” he told police his attacker was shouting, according to sources. He was stabbed in the right knee and left buttocks; while surgery is required, he is expected to survive the attack.
It is preliminarily believed that this attack is related to three subsequent attacks.
Twelve hours later, at 11:29 p.m., Friday, a man was found stabbed to death but still collapsed in his seat on an A train at Mott Avenue station on Far Rockaway.
He suffered stab wounds to the neck and torso and was pronounced dead at the scene.
About two hours later, at 1:15 a.m. Saturday, a 44-year-old woman was found dead, again in a pool of blood, under the subway seat inside an A train at the street station 207th of Inwood.
She had been stabbed all over her body.
Then, at 1:28 a.m. Saturday morning, a 43-year-old man was stabbed at random while sleeping in a stairwell at train station A at 181 West Street.
He ran into a bench near 181 West Street, but collapsed before entering the lobby, police said.
The victim is being treated at a local hospital for four stab wounds to his back and is in stable condition.
The 44-year-old woman was taken to Presbyterian-Allen Hospital in New York City, where she was pronounced dead, according to authorities.
It’s the worst subway crash since June 2006, when a homeless serial shuttle injured four people in a furious 13-hour train ride to Harlem and Rockefeller Center. All his victims survived.
And it’s the worst mass violence against homeless people since 2019, when four homeless men died on the verge of sleeping one night in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
Recently, Mayor Blasio voiced public concerns from New York City Commissioner Dermot Shea about a recent subway attack, which included a canal changer pushed into the tracks.
Additional reports by Kathianne Boniello