NYC man stabbed repeatedly in torso at subway station: police
Police said the victim and suspect were reportedly fighting prior to the fatal stabbing
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A 40-year-old man was stabbed to death inside a subway station in New York City, police said.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) confirmed with Fox News Digital that law enforcement responded to a 911 call at a subway station in Washington Heights at 6 p.m. on Friday evening.
Authorities said that stabbing happened near the subway turnstile.
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NYPD said the 40-year-old victim was repeatedly stabbed in the torso.
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A 40-year-old man was stabbed to death inside a subway station in Manhattan, on Friday, police said. (FOX 5)
A police source confirmed to FOX 5 that the victim and the suspect knew each other and got into a dispute at a nearby park before the fatal stabbing.
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The victim was rushed to the Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Officers responded to the 175th Street A train station in Washington Heights just before 6 p.m. for reports of a stabbing. (FOX 5)
NYPD said that the suspect's identity is unknown at this time and that no arrests have been made.
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The victim's identity is being withheld pending family notification, police said.
New York Police walk through the Mount Eden subway station while investigating a shooting on the platform in the Bronx borough of New York. (New York Police Department via AP)
The death at the New York City subway station comes amid a steady uptick of violence in the popular mode of transportation.
There have been more than 1,700 arrests for turnstile-jumping and over 28,000 fare evasion tickets issued so far this year, data shows.
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Police and Mayor Eric Adams, a former transit officer himself, have suggested some links between fare-skipping and violence on the trains.
In March, a man was shot in the head with his own gun after a brawl in a packed subway car. The man who was armed with the gun had walked through an emergency gate and did not pay his fare, police said.
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Fox News' Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.