A 54-year-old man on a Queens subway train was stabbed in the stomach on Saturday after complaining that another commuter was speaking too loudly on his cellphone, police said.
The victim was riding an E train rumbling toward its last stop at the Jamaica Center-Parsons Archer subway station at around 11 a.m. when he asked a man sitting near him to lower his voice as he spoke on his cellphone, cops said.
Outraged, the other man began to argue with the victim.
The argument quickly became violent with the suspect repeatedly punching his victim in the face before jamming a blade into the man’s abdomen, cops said.
The suspect ran off the train when it entered the station. EMS rushed the victim to Jamaica Hospital, where he’s expected to survive.
Saturday’s stabbing happened three days after Tyquan Manassa slashed two strangers and slapped a third within minutes of each other on the Manhattan-bound E train platform in the Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike station Wednesday afternoon.
Cops arrested Manassa the next day.
The attacks come as police fight a slight uptick in assaults in the city’s subway system. As of Nov. 16, the city had seen 509 assaults on the rails this year, nine more than by this time last year.
Overall, transit crime is down by 4% this year compared to last, with major decreases in robbery, bag snatching and pickpocketing, officials said.
