The daughter of the subway rider who was stabbed within the abdomen after asking a raving straphanger to decrease his voice pleaded for extra cops to patrol the Large Apple underground.
“They’re alleged to be on the station,” the sufferer’s daughter instructed The Submit on Sunday. “I don’t actually see them as a lot anymore.”
Her 54-year-old father was heading dwelling from his restaurant gig when he requested the stranger to cease speaking loudly on his mobile phone whereas aboard the E practice on the Jamaica Heart-Parsons/Archer station on Saturday round 11 a.m., cops and the daughter stated.
The etiquette-challenged straphanger as a substitute pummeled him within the face earlier than knifing him within the intestine, in keeping with cops.
“It’s a loopy world we dwell in,” the waiter’s daughter, who requested anonymity, stated as her father recovers from his wounds within the hospital.
“He’s speaking, he’s consuming, he’s good,” she added about her dad.
The stabbing got here as no shock to 1 teenage subway rider.
“Sadly, I really feel prefer it occurs so typically that it’s type of like we’re desensitized to it,” stated 18-year-old Fatima Shahid contained in the Jamaica Heart-Parsons/Archer station hours after the knifing.
“It does make me really feel a bit of unsafe.”
The attacker, in the meantime, fled the station and has but to be caught.
