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MORRIS HEIGHTS, Bronx (WABC) -- Three men were stabbed, one fatally, in separate attacks in the New York City subway system within an eight-hour span.
A 38-year-old Bronx man was getting off a northbound No. 4 train as it arrived at the 176th St. station just before 9 p.m. Thursday when he was stabbed multiple times in the back and chest by a suspect who came up behind him in what seemed to police to be an unprovoked attack.
The victim collapsed on the platform, was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he later died, becoming the seventh person to be killed in the NYC transit system this year, and the second fatal subway stabbing in less than a week.
He was later identified as Charles Moore.
The suspect is described as a man with a dark complexion, about 5'11, and was last seen wearing a dark-hooded sweatshirt and Nike sneakers.
Earlier Thursday, at 5:15 p.m., a 45-year-old man was slashed in the face by a man on a moped who followed him into a Brooklyn subway station in East New York.
Just after 1 p.m., a 59-year-old man was stabbed in the back at a Harlem subway station. The victim was waiting for a train at the 125th St station at St Nicholas Avenue when he got into an argument with a man he didn't know, possibly after a harmless bump on the platform.
The other man pulled a knife and stabbed the victim in the upper back. He was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside hospital in stable condition
The suspect, last seen wearing blue jeans, a blue jacket and blue tinted glasses, ran off.
New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the NYPD had "to do more" after three people were stabbed, one fatally, in three separate attacks on the subway within an 8-hour span.
Police have made more than 600 arrests for illegal cutting instruments on the subway so far this year.