A man was found in a New York City subway station early Thursday morning with fatal lacerations to the torso, according to the New York Police Department. The death, as Fox 11 reports, marks the 11th killing in the New York subway system this year.
At around 12:12 a.m., police responded to a call of an unconscious man at the West Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue station in Greenwich Village.
The man, who has not been identified, was located on a stairwell ramp area of the subway station, unconscious and unresponsive, police said. The incident has since been deemed a homicide. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The medical examiner is working to determine his cause of death, per the NYPD. The investigation into the man’s death remains ongoing.
Crime on the subway in general has jumped 41% this year compared to where it was 2021, according to CNN citation of NYPD statistics in October when 1,813 incidents had taken place compared to 1,282 during the same time period in 2021.
“We can’t get away from the fact we have three and a half million people using our subway system,” Mayor Eric Adams said in October, per WNYW. “Those average of six crimes a day is not giving the impression that our system is out of control. We’re dealing with the perception of fear that people are feeling.”
Breaking down the killings that occurred on the MTA in 2022, the local Fox station shared a timeline of each incident. On New Year’s Day, a good samaritan was killed attempting to help someone who was being attacked in the Bronx.
And just over two weeks later, Michelle Alyssa Go of the Upper West Side was killed when a homeless man, who was later charged with second-degree murder, allegedly shoved the 40-year-old woman in front of an oncoming subway train.
