at Queensboro Plaza in Long Island City, resulting in a straphanger suffering from gashes to the face and hands, police said. The first slaying took place on Friday at around 8:40 a.m. Surveillance video also recorded the suspect threatening to stab people in a subway station with a knife while wearing the same shirt. Ubiera was captured by authorities on Sunday after sharp-eyed officers identified him in public wearing the same outfit that he wore while carrying out the attacks - a gold and black short-sleeve button down shirt.
'His record demonstrates that each time he is involved in unprovoked violence against innocent victims the criminal justice system has him back to the streets and the subways rather than jail or psychiatric treatment,' she added. We keep arresting him,' NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said in a statement issued on Sunday. Police said that Ubiera had been in trouble with the law at least 19 times before last week's stabbings, including three previous arrests in 2022. He initially waved the weapon at them and tried to flee with it. Ubiera had just been released from jail on Thursday after being arrested just a day before for allegedly refusing to put a knife away in front of police, who had ordered him to do so. One of the victims was stabbed in the face, while the other sustained neck injuries. Donny Ubiera, 32, randomly stabbed two men in back-to-back incidents over the course of the weekend just after being released from jail on ThursdayĪ man was arrested in Queens after going on a slashing spree on New York City's subway system just a day after being detained and let go from jail for carrying a knife.ĭonny Ubiera, 32, randomly stabbed two commuters on Friday and Saturday while riding on a Flushing-to-Times Square 7-line subway train, the NYPDs said in a press release.