A slasher who cut a stranger’s face on a Brooklyn subway train went on to carry out two more random blade attacks over the next 24 hours, police sources said Sunday.
Police released a surveillance image of the suspect, who is still being sought, after he cut a 37-year-old man on the left side of the face on a Manhattan-bound Q train in Flatbush about 6:30 a.m. Saturday.
The victim got off the train at Church Ave. and alerted police while the attacker apparently stayed on the subway until the next stop, cops said.
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A 37-year-old man was slashed in the face on a Manhattan-bound Q train rumbling into the Church Ave. subway stop in Flatbush, Brooklyn on Saturday. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
After cops asked the public’s help identifying the suspect, he went on to attack two more victims, each time coming up from behind and slashing the left side of his target’s face, sources said.
About 9:40 p.m. Saturday he slashed a 53-year-old man near Foster and New York Aves., about a mile-and-a-half from the Church Ave. station. Then about 6:55 a.m. Sunday, he did the same thing to a 56-year-old man just a block away, near Newkirk Ave. and New York Aves., police said.
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Police investigate a slashing on Newkirk Ave. in Brooklyn on Sunday. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
All three victims were taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
The NYPD fanned out across several blocks in Flatbush looking for the suspect Sunday afternoon.
Police described the suspect Saturday as wearing a navy blue jacket, black shorts and white sneakers.
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Police released a photo of the suspect in a slashing that occurred Saturday on a Q train in Brooklyn. (NYPD)
The attacks come about a week after a disturbing subway stabbing in Manhattan
On Oct. 16, Justice Jackson, 30, an emotionally disturbed homeless man with an extensive criminal history, allegedly knifed a 51-year-old man in the back during an argument on a rush-hour D train train.
Cops arrested Jackson the next day and charged him with assault and he’s been locked up on Rikers Island ever since. The victim was hospitalized in stable condition.
Anyone with information on the serial slasher is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
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