A guy was caught in Queens after going on a subway cutting rampage just a day after being apprehended and released from prison for carrying a weapon.
Donny Ubiera, 32, stabbed two commuters at random on a Flushing-to-Times Square 7-line subway train on Friday and Saturday, according to an NYPD news release. One of the victims was stabbed in the face, while the other was injured in the neck.
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Ubiera had been released from jail the day before for allegedly refusing to put a knife away in front of police officers who had ordered him to. He first pointed the gun at them and sought to flee with it. According to police, Ubiera had been arrested at least 19 times before this week's stabbings, including three earlier arrests in 2022.
Authorities apprehended Ubiera on Sunday after officers spotted him in public wearing the same clothes he used while carrying out the attacks - a gold and black short-sleeve button-down shirt. Surveillance video also captured the man threatening individuals with a knife in a metro station while wearing the same outfit.
The first murder occurred on Friday at about 8:40 am. According to authorities, the incident occurred at Queensboro Plaza in Long Island City, resulting in a straphanger suffering from gashes to the face and hands. The unnamed victim needed stitches and was sent to the hospital. According to the New York Post, the train where the cutting occurred was also taken out of service after a large amount of blood was spilled on it.
Ubiera was not detained immediately following the event and cut another train rider the next day at 7:15 am at Jackson Heights, Queens, near the 74th Street-Broadway stop. The culprit, according to authorities, presented his weapon to his next victim before stabbing them in the neck. Ubiera was then able to depart the area.
The second victim has not been named but is reported to be in stable condition after being transferred to Elmhurst Hospital. Cops discovered the knife used in Ubiera's second attack on Saturday when they arrived at the crime site. He was arrested 12 hours later, Daily Mail reported.
Donny Ubiera's Stabbing Victim in New York Subway
Prosecutors said Monday that the victim of a subway stabber who scared Queens in a series of attacks last week still needs a ventilator to breathe. "He just stabbed me!" "Donny Ubiera's victim, Morris Walton, stated in a panicked phone call to his brother on Saturday morning," the startled sibling told the Daily News.
Just two days before the knife attacks, which prompted detectives to disclose Ubiera's photo to the public, he followed a guy inside a Queens bakery and attacked him, according to Assistant District Attorney Ryan Nicolosi.
Ubiera shouted to the victim while carrying a board with a nail protruding from one hand and a rock in the other. Ubiera slammed the victim in the head with the board and nail as he tried to flee behind the counter.
Approximately 8:45 am. According to police, he attacked a 26-year-old guy aboard a Manhattan-bound No. 7 train as it sat at the Queensboro Plaza stop on Friday. According to the victim, he was seated on the train when Ubiera dropped a knife on the floor in front of him, then took it up, murmured something, cut him in the face and arm, and fled.
The man required 35 stitches to repair wounds on his hands and was also beaten in the head. Walton, who Ubiera stabbed on Saturday, watched a television broadcast about the Friday morning stabbing and assumed he'd be the next victim, according to his brother.
Sinclair stated that his brother was on his way home from a late-night shift at Home Depot when he was attacked. According to authorities, Ubiera stabbed Walton, 55, in the neck with a kitchen knife as the victim sat on a seat waiting for the train at the 74th St.-Broadway station at about 7:15 am.
Walton is likely to recover despite being on a ventilator. Sinclair described his brother as extremely unhappy. Margaret Lin, Ubiera's lawyer, requested that her client undergo a mental health evaluation, as per New York Daily News.
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