NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – Two men were stabbed minutes apart in Queens on Tuesday evening in back-to-back unprovoked attacks, police said after arresting a suspect.
The first victim, a 25-year-old man, was stabbed around 5:15 p.m. at the Mobil gas station at 100-03 North Conduit Ave. in Ozone Park.
According to police, the man was pumping gas when another man walked up behind him and stabbed him in the back, police said.
The attacker then walked to the nearby Aqueduct–North Conduit Avenue subway station, where he stabbed a 67-year-old man in the neck, according to police.
The two victims were taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where the older man was in critical condition and the younger man was stable.
A 40-year-old suspect was taken into custody in what police are investigating as unprovoked assaults.