Police are investigating two stabbings at separate Brooklyn subway stations on Monday that left two people wounded.
The two separate incidents occurred merely 2 miles apart and saw both a man and woman assaulted with knives.
According to police sources, the first incident unfolded at about 4:35 a.m. on March 25 aboard a Manhattan-bound J train near the Kosciuszko Street station on the Bushwick/Bed-Stuy boundary.
Authorities said a 52-year-old man was apparently smoking a cigarette when another man asked him to put it out. Cops say the cigarette was the fuse that sparked a verbal dispute that exploded that ended in a brutal stabbing as the train pulled into the Kosciuszko Street stop.
Police said the 52-year-old man took multiple stab wounds to his back. EMS rushed him to Kings County Hospital where he is expected to survive.
Law enforcement sources reported that the alleged assailant was cuffed by police above ground while leaving the station; charges against that individual were still pending as of Tuesday afternoon.
Police said the second stabbing occurred later about seven hours later, at around 11:30 a.m., inside of the Franklin Avenue station in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
According to law enforcement sources, an unidentified female suspect approached a 21-year-old woman passing through the turnstiles and stabbed her in the back in a seemingly unprovoked attack. The female suspect fled the station on foot in an unknown direction.
EMS rushed the wounded 21-year-old woman to Kings County Hospital for treatment of injuries not considered life-threatening.
No arrests have been made in this case, police said.
During an unrelated press conference on March 25, NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper told reporters that cops are striving to take weapons out of the subway system, stating that a man was cuffed that morning bringing a gun into a Lower Manhattan station.
