Suspect Arrested After 3 Injured in New York Subway Slashings

A suspect is in custody after three women were injured in a series of random, unprovoked subway slashing incidents over the weekend, New York Police Department officials said.

A 28-year-old man was arrested Tuesday morning and is being charged with three counts of assault in the first degree {snip}

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The slashing incidents all occurred late Sunday afternoon.

At about 4:14 p.m., police received reports of a slashing that took place at the 86th Street-Lexington Avenue subway station, police said. A 19-year-old woman exited a southbound 4 train and was walking up the platform stairs when a male suspect slashed her right leg {snip}

The suspect then is alleged to have attacked a 48-year-old woman at the same station, slashing her on her right leg as she stood on the subway platform {snip}

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A third attack was reported just minutes later, at about 4:32 p.m., when a 28-year-old woman who was sitting on a southbound 4 train heading toward the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station was slashed in her left leg {snip}

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