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Police and medical personnel responded to the Brooklyn
Bridge-City Hall subway station in lower Manhattan shortly after
8:30 a.m. for a 911 call about a person being stabbed. The
victim, 38, was found unresponsive with multiple stab wounds to
his torso and brought to a nearby hospital, where he was
pronounced dead, police said.
He was later identified by police as John Sheldon of Brooklyn.
He had been mistakenly identified by police earlier in the day
as Sheldon John.
Authorities said they were searching for the other rider, who
they described as in his 20s or 30s and who was dressed in black
and wearing black headphones.
Police said the two men got into an argument on a train after
the other man stepped on Sheldon's shoes. Sheldon was stabbed on
the train and in the subway station after the two got off,
police said.
Earlier this month, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said there
had been no homicides in the transit system during the first
three months of the year for the first time in seven years. She
added that subway crime from January to March had decreased to
the second-lowest level in the first quarter in 27 years.
Violent crime is rare overall in the system, which carries
millions of riders every day. However, recent high-profile
attacks, such as a woman being set on fire and people being
shoved onto the tracks, have left some riders on edge.
Last month, the Trump administration threatened to pull federal
funding from the city's transit system if it didn't provide a
plan to address crime.
City officials responded that there were plans in place to
reduce crime on the subways and pointed to statistics showing
that crime was down.
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