Authorities released a photo on Saturday of the man who stabbed a New York City Housing Authority worker in the back as he tried to fill out his MetroCard at a Harlem train station.
The victim, Taofeek Agisegiri, aged 35, observed a man urinating at station A/B /C/D at W. 125th St. and St. Nicholas Ave., minutes before he was stabbed at 4: 30 early Friday morning, the NYPD reported.
The offender allegedly chased Agisegiri after he tried to “engage him in a verbal dispute” to no avail and then stabbed him.
“He said, why am I looking at you? ‘I’m talking to you, don’t you talk to me?’” the victim recalled. “I walked past him. He just stabbed me in the back.”
The suspect, who was wearing a black sweatshirt, fled the station.
EMS transported the victim to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital with a minor injury. The NYCHA worker disclosed that he received 12 stitches in his upper back and a scratch where the attacker tried to stab him again.
The New York Police Department described the subject as a dark-skinned man, 5 feet 8 inches, between 28 and 35 years old, with a slim build and a beard at the time of the stabbing, he was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, a black jacket, he also carried a book.
Agisegiri, who emigrated from Nigeria to the United States six years ago, claimed that three people saw him when he was being attacked, but they did nothing.
“In this country people mind their own business,” he said.
This early-morning attack is one of the latest in a wave of violence in the city subway. Authorities have been dealing with a 41% increase in crime within the New York transit system this year 2022 in comparison with 2021.
The police published the image of the criminal Waiting for someone to identify him. Likewise, citizens who can provide information on his whereabouts are asked to contact NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
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