A 36-year-old homeless man has died after being fatally stabbed inside Penn Station on Thanksgiving.
NYPD officers responded to the attack at 33rd Street and 7th Avenue near the subway entrance at about 6pm yesterday.
The victim was then rushed to Bellevue Hospital with knife wounds but he later succumbed to his injuries, police said.
Sources told the Daily News the incident is believed to have involved two homeless men who had gotten into an argument underground - with one stabbing the other in the chest.
A 36-year-old homeless man was stabbed in the chest outside Penn Station before being rushed to Bellevue Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, police said
Sources said the incident is believed to have involved two homeless men who had gotten into an argument underground - with one stabbing the other in the chest.
The victim is then said to have run up to the Long Island Rail Road entrance to find police officers before collapsing.
Several blood-stained items of clothing were left behind on the sidewalk inside of a police cordon.
No description of the suspect was immediately available, and no arrests have been made, police said.
The incident is the latest in a series of stabbings to hit Manhattan.
New York City has seen a surge in violent assaults on the subway, with a 45 percent increase in the past 28 days as compared to last year. In the past week, a 141 percent increase was also reported for transit crime.
Several blood-stained items of clothing were left behind on the sidewalk inside of a police cordon. No description of the suspect was immediately available, and no arrests have been made, police said
On Sunday, an up-and-coming soccer player died after he was randomly stabbed in the neck on the subway.
Akeem Loney, 32, was attacked while he slept early on Sunday morning as his No2 train was coming into Penn Station at around 12.15am.
Loney was lying down or napping on one of the seats at the time of his fatal attack. He was taken by EMS to Bellevue Hospital where he died from his injuries an hour later.
Homeless soccer player Akeem Loney, 32, was fatally stabbed in the neck at Penn Station on Sunday morning while he was sleeping on a subway car
He was taken to New York Presbyterian Cornell hospital where he was found in stable condition
His attacker was spotted on surveillance cameras and could be seen running out of the station.
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