Police have arrested a homeless ex-con they say brutally stabbed a 21-year-old man with a knuckle knife in an unprovoked attack on a Bronx subway train, officials said Saturday.
Lateef Green is facing attempted murder and assault charges for Friday’s attack on a No. 5 train nearing the 219th St. subway station in Williamsbridge.
According to police, Green, 50, was pacing back and forth between cars on the moving subway train at about 7 a.m. when he randomly stormed up to his victim and stabbed him multiple times in the chest and body with the knuckle knife, which has holes in the handle for the wielder’s fingers, providing a firmer grip.
The victim exited the train at the 219th St. station and flagged down police. EMS transported him to Jacobi Hospital, where he’s expected to survive.
Police released images of Green and caught up with him about 12 hours later, taking him into custody. It was not immediately disclosed where he as located.
His arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court was pending Saturday.
A 21-year-old man riding onboard a southbound No. 5 train was taken to Jacobi Hospital after he was stabbed multiple times in the right forearm just before the E. 219th St./White Plains Rd. subway stop in the Bronx on Fri., April 18, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News) Show Caption1 of 2A 21-year-old man riding onboard a southbound No. 5 train was taken to Jacobi Hospital after he was stabbed multiple times in the chest and body just before the E. 219th St./White Plains Rd. subway stop in the Bronx on Fri., April 18, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)Expand
Police sources said Green has been arrested about 30 times and violated parole after he was released from prison in 2021. He served three and a half years at Mid-State Correctional Facility after he was convicted in Manhattan on a hate crime assault and sexual abuse incident in 2017, state records show.
Many of Green’s arrests were for criminal trespass after the homeless man was found sleeping in building doorways and stairwells, police sources said.
He was still homeless when he was arrested Friday, but was staying at a Bronx shelter, police said.
As police flooded the 219th St. subway station following the bloody attack, cops quickly apprehend a man who allegedly brazenly groped a woman’s breast as they passed each other on the stairs.
Officers arrested Dennis Willis, 58, charging him with forcible touching of intimate parts, police said.
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