The “A-Train Ripper” is in custody, several law enforcement sources told The Post on Saturday night.
Sources said the knife-wielding maniac was wanted in a horrific subway wind that killed two homeless people and cut two others along a train line in Upper Manhattan.
A source added that when he was taken into custody his shoes were sprinkled with the blood of his victims – and he was still possessing a bloody knife.
Sources said the suspect, named Washington, was still in custody at 34th Precinct in Washington Heights.
The bloodshed sparked outrage for a safe subway, and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea responded and announced 500 additional police personnel to be deployed to the city immediately for the department’s transit bureau.
The greetings began Friday morning, from where the alleged stick was not seized, officials said.
At 11:30 a.m., a 67-year-old man was stabbed while pushing his car on a south-bound platform at the train’s 181st Street station in 67 Shentington Heights.
“I’ll kill you!” He told the cops that his attacker screamed, according to sources. He was stabbed in the right knee and left buttock; When he needed surgery, he was more likely to survive the attack.
That attack is primarily believed to be connected to the next three attacks.
Twelve hours later, at 11:29 a.m. Friday, a man was stabbed to death, but he was still trapped on his seat in a train at the far-flung Mott Avenue station.
He was stabbed in the neck and torso and was pronounced dead at the scene.
About two hours later, at 1:15 a.m. Saturday, a 44-year-old woman was found dead again in a pool of blood, under her subway seat, inside a train at 207th Street station in Inwood.
She was stabbed all over her body.
Then, at 1:28 a.m. Saturday, a 43-year-old man was attacked with a random knife while lying on the stairs at a train station on West 181st Street.
He stumbled upon a nearby shore on West 181 Street, but collapsed before entering the vestibule, police said.
The victim is being treated at an area hospital for four puncture wounds to his back and is stable.
The 44-year-old woman was taken to New York’s Presbyterian-len Lawn Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, officials said.
The worst subway stabbing since June 2006 is when a homeless serial slasher injured four people in a 13-hour gap between Harlem and Rockefeller centers. All his victims survived.
And it is the most mass violence against homeless people since 2019, when four homeless men were stabbed to death in their sleep one night in Chinatown, Manhattan.
Mayor de Blasio recently dismissed public concerns about the recent trend of NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shiani’s subway attack, including a straffer male turned on the track.
Additional reporting by K. Thian Bonillo
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