Suspect In Queens Subway Knife Attacks Is Arrested, Police Say

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — Police have arrested the person accused of stabbing one man and slashing another in random attacks on Queens subway trains in recent days.

Donny Ubiera, a 32-year-old Bayside resident, was arrested Saturday night, police said — reportedly after officers saw him on the street wearing the same black-and-gold button-up shirt he wore while committing the initial attack on Friday, the New York Post reported.

Ubiera's first attack happened during rush hour Friday morning, when he took out a "large knife" on board a Manhattan-bound 7 train that was pulling into Queensboro Plaza, then slashed a 62-year-old man on the face and hand, police said.

Ubiera got off the train at Queensboro and fled on the street toward Queens Plaza North, police said. The victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was in stable condition after receiving "numerous stitches," police said.

Less than a day later, around 7 a.m. Saturday, Ubiera was standing on the eastbound 7 train platform at the 74th Street-Broadway station in Jackson Heights when he again took out a large knife and randomly stabbed a 55-year-old man, police said.

The man was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital in critical but stable condition, and the knife was recovered at the scene by police. Ubiera fled the station, police said.

According to the Post, Ubiera had been arrested just two days before Friday's attack for refusing to drop a knife after being confronted by police on the street.

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