Homeless Man Arrested for Knife Attack on NYC Subway

Victims were taken to hospital in a stable condition.

A homeless man named Abraham Kentish, 27 allegedly attacked two people outside his own shelter before slashing a third sleeping person at a nearby subway station in Brooklyn on early Sunday morning (November 12).

The New York Police Department (NYPD) told the New York Post that Kentish slashed a 38-year-old man in the face and stabbed a 70-year-old man in the torso in front of the men's shelter on Blake Avenue near Linwood Street in East New York.

Homeless Man Arrested for Knife Attack on NYC Subway
A teenager sells candy and other items in a New York City subway car on August 18, 2023 in New York City. A homeless man named Abraham Kentish was arrested after he wounded three men in a knife attack in New York’s subway over the weekend. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Ten minutes later, police alleged that the attacker wounded a 26-year-old stranger with a slash on his head while sleeping on board a southbound No. 4 train near the New Lots Avenue subway station, just blocks away from the shelter.

All three victims were taken to Brookdale University Hospital in a stable condition.

Roughly an hour after the attack, Kentish was arrested at Pennsylvania and Linden Avenues on three counts of felony assault.

The motives for the knife attack remained unclear as investigations are underway.

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