Crime & Safety
Herald Square Bloody Sunday Stab Case Ends In Arrest: NYPD
Police arrested a 38-year-old man after a man was stabbed near the busy train station Sunday evening, officials said.
MIDTOWN, NY — Cops arrested the man they say randomly stabbed a straphanger inside the Herald Square subway station Sunday night, officials said.
David Trotman, 38, was arrested and charged with assault late Monday evening, police said.
Trotman stabbed a 76-year-old man in the torso about 11 p.m. at the entrance to the busy station on West 34th Street, police contend.
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The victim, travel agent Iqbal Ahmed, told the Daily News in an exclusive bedside interview that his stabber demanded money and then immediately stabbed him.
“He did not give me a chance to say anything,” Ahmed told The Daily News from his bedside in Bellevue Hospital, where he was brought on Sunday in stable condition.
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Ahmed started a gofundme campaign seeking $50,000 to help offset his medical bills.
Trotman was cuffed by cops after punching a Bronx man on a train in Chelsea earlier on Monday, according to The Daily News.
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