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A suspect has been arrested after a random knife attack inside New York’s Grand Central subway station on Christmas Eve left two victims wounded, police said.
Spokesman for New York City Police Department (NYPD) confirmed to Fox News Digital that 28-year-old Jason Sargeant of Brooklyn was arrested for attacking two random people.
On Tuesday, just before 10:15 p.m., police responded to a 911 call about an assault at the 42 Street-Grand Central subway station.
The police said that a 26-year-old woman was injured in the neck, and a 42-year-old man was injured in the left wrist.
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The NYPD has arrested a suspect in a Christmas Eve stabbing that left two victims wounded at the Grand Central subway station. (FOX 5 NYC/Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Police said the man was the first victim and was attacked on the steps leading to the station’s south entrance. The sergeant allegedly slashed the man on the left wrist after an argument.
Moments later, police said Sargeant allegedly confronted the victim and slashed her neck near the turnpike during another altercation.
Emergency services responded and transported both victims to local hospitals.
Police said both victims are in stable condition.
Police in New York have arrested a suspect in a Christmas Eve murder that injured two people. (FOX 5 NYC)
The police also found a knife at the scene.
The sergeant was charged with two counts of first degree assault, two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment and several counts of second-degree menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, harassment and disorderly conduct.
This attack happened just days after a woman was set on fire and burned alive in the New York subway train.
Sebastin Zapeta, 33, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, was charged with first- and second-degree murder, as well as first-degree arson.
Hours after the attack, New York Governor Kathy Hochul praised the safety of the New York subway in a post on X and is facing criticism for her “tone deaf” post.
Hochul claimed that crime has decreased on the New York subway since she sent in the National Guard earlier this year to quell the problem, about eight hours after the woman’s murder.
Hochul sent 750 members of the National Guard to the subway last week in an effort to keep holiday crime under control.
“In March, I took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who ride the trains every day,” Hochul’s post read. “Since deploying the @NationalGuardNY to support @NYPDnews and @MTA security efforts and adding cameras to all subway cars, crime is down and ridership is up,” she wrote in her post.
Fox News Digital earlier came to Hochul’s office for comment on the criticism, but did not immediately receive a response.
President-elect Trump’s would-be border czar Tom Homan slammed Hochul during an interview on “Fox & Friends” on Monday.
“Governor Hochul, shame on you. There’s nothing you can say that’s going to fix this in New York,” Homan said.
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Homan, who recently traveled to the Big Apple to discuss illegal immigrant crime with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, placed some of the blame on the Biden administration for lax federal immigration policies.
“Here’s another example of an illegal alien killing an American citizen. It’s an almost daily occurrence now, with historic numbers of criminal aliens walking the streets, due to this administration’s sanctuary jurisdiction policies and lax immigration enforcement,” he said.
Fox News Digital’s Taylor Penley contributed to this report.
Stepheny Price is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Tips and story ideas can be sent to stepheny.price@fox.com
