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Man stabs woman in subway station after he asked for money, police say
By Jesse Zanger,
5 hours ago
Woman stabbed at Queens subway station 00:20
NEW YORK - A woman is recovering after she was stabbed repeatedly at a Queens subway station.
It happened at the Jamaica-Van Wyck subway station around 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
The attack came after a man asked the 23-year-old woman for money, police said. An argument started, during which he stabbed her, according to police.
Good Samaritans intervened and held the suspect until police arrived. He was taken into custody. So far, he's been charged with robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.
The woman was rushed to Jamaica Hospital and is in stable condition.
The electromagnetic detection systems are theoretically capable of detecting guns as well as weapons like razors.
"This is to add on to and leverage technology to prevent shooters in our subways, and this is about preventing mass casualty incidents," Mayor Eric Adams said when the program was deployed Friday.
Transit officials are staying mum on exactly where the scanners are being installed for safety reasons.
"Eventually, every turnstile is going to be able to identify if someone is carrying a gun"
"I think this is going to become a norm for us. I think the turnstiles are going to change. Eventually, every turnstile is going to be able to identify if someone is carrying a gun," Adams said earlier this month. "I think it's a game-changer for the transportation system across the globe."
The Legal Aid Society has taken issue with the scanners.
"These scanners will create significant inconvenience, adding congestion and delays to an already overburdened system," the group said in a statement. "Even worse, they are an unjustified invasion of privacy, and put people's lives at risk from the panic that an inevitable false alarm would induce."
"We've had five straight months of double-digit decreases in overall subway crime after we surged more than 1,000 additional officers into the system in February, and, so far, in July, we're on track for a sixth month of safer subways," Adams said in a statement last week. "Today, other than during the pandemic, our transit system is the safest it's been in 14 years, with the lowest number of robberies in recorded history."
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