A New York City man has died after he was brutally stabbed by a stranger as he exited a subway train in the Bronx on Thursday night, and the shocking ordeal was captured on surveillance footage.
The video shows the victim, wearing a red jacket and white pants, attempting to grapple with his attacker but the suspect is able to stab the man repeatedly.
After knifing the victim five times underneath a subway exit sign, the man hits him once more in the face and flees from the train station.
The victim was transported to St. Barnabas Hospital in critical condition, and later succumbed to his injuries, according to police.
The two men grappled with each other before the suspect, dressed in black, was able to get on top of the victim and stab him repeatedly
The startled victim lies on the floor of the station after being stabbed as the suspect fled the scene
Police stand at the scene where the alleged murder took place in the Bronx, and pieces of bloody cloth and detritus can be seen
Overall crime in New York City has spiked by 32.68 percent this year, and there has also been a rise in terrifying subway attacks
New York police have yet to identify the assailant, who committed the unprovoked attack as the victim exited a northbound 4 train.
They are also yet to identify the victim pending the notification of family members.
Police described the attacker as a man with a dark complexion, approximately 5’11 and 160 lbs, and was last seen wearing a dark-hooded sweatshirt and Nike sneakers.
While murders in New York City are down 13.5 percent from last year, overall crime has spiked by 32.68 percent.
The city has also seen rapes jump from 1.137 cases last year to 1,249 so far this year, a nearly 10 percent rise.
Robberies are also up 36.5 percent, and assaults and burglaries are up 15.9 and 31.5 percent respectively.
Although murders are less frequent this year, the city contends with daily reports of assaults, with this year seeing a high number of brutal attacks in the subway system.
On Sunday, two teenage girls were beaten up and robbed by a gang of women wearing neon green skin suits on a Manhattan subway, according to police.
The pair of 19-year-olds were waiting for the N train in Times Square at around 2.00am, when a group of at least six women in bright green costumes charged down the station stairs.
The teens backed away and chose to enter a separate train car than the group that was ‘loud and obnoxious,’ according to one of the girls’ mothers.
But the green-clad group poured into the train from every entrance and ultimately ‘jumped’ the two young women.
Both teenage girls were swung around, stomped and punched by the green-clad group on a New York City N train at Sunday around 2.00am
Onlookers did not attempt to intervene as the innocent girls were beaten and robbed, rather they recorded the incident
Transit-related crimes have increased 43 percent in the last 12 months in addition to a 16 percent growth in felony assault charges, according to police records.
There were 1,165 crimes reported in the city transit system for the period last year compared to 1,670 this year.
While politicians have tried to downplay the rampant violence on the city’s subway, residents are growing more and more frustrated with the conditions.
Elizabeth Gomes, a 33-year-old mother, was savagely beaten by a man on the subway and nearly lost her eye.
Tiffany Cabán, a Queens district councilmember, tweeted that subway violence is a ‘one-in-a-million event,’ causing Gomes to speak out.
‘I would say it’s ridiculous for her to say that,’ Gomes told FOX News.
‘(Almost) 99 percent of these violent (attacks) are coming from the subways. There is no help there. There is hardly any kind of cameras or anything there. So, how could she even say that we’re making these things up? The subway is a dangerous place.’
Gomes recalled the event and responded to questions about transit safety. ‘The subway is a dangerous place,’ she said
Elizabeth Gomes, 33, was attacked on September 20 as she got off the subway at JFK airport and headed to work
Pictured: The tweet from District 22 councilmember Tiffany Cabán, which circulated social media one week after Gomes’ attack
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