25-year-old man charged with murder in deadly New York subway stabbing – abcnews.com

25-year-old man charged with murder in deadly New York subway stabbing  abcnews.com

A 25-year-old man has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of a fellow rider on a J train in Queens, police said. This is the sixth homicide in the New York subway system this year. QUEENS, New York (WABC) — A 25-year-old man has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of a fellow rider on a J train in Queens, police said. Jyrell Thomas was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation Thursday morning. He was described by police as emotionally disturbed. He was later arrested on charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Police said Thomas was pacing back and forth inside the train car and appeared agitated before approaching Mesias Lojano, 59, just after 4 p.m.

on Wednesday. Lojano tried to walk away before Thomas swung at him with a kitchen knife, according to police. Bismarck Villareyna witnessed the attack and recorded video aboard the train. "I heard, oh somebody is being attacked, somebody being attacked. So I pulled out my phone, started walking, as you see in the video," Villareyna said. The violence eventually spilled onto a J train platform, where bystanders chased Thomas. "There was an old man behind me – hold him! Hold him! Hold him! And that's when he started running. And then I started running after