A 45-year-old man was found dead inside a subway car in the Bronx early Friday morning, police said. The man initially said he was fatally shot in the chest, but authorities later said he died from a stab wound.
Police said the fatal crash occurred just after 5 a.m. on a southbound D train approaching the 182nd-183rd Street station.
According to police, three men in black clothes who fled from the train are being investigated as suspects. No arrests had been made by midday Friday. It is unclear whether the victim, who was pronounced dead after being taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, knew the assailants.
Immediately after the incident, about a dozen onlookers remained on the station platform and on the stopped train. They watched silently as three paramedics tried unsuccessfully to save the man's life, leaving their equipment scattered on the platform floor.
Outside the station, police officers were guarding the heavily sealed entrance. A police car and an ambulance were parked outside with their lights flashing.
Although murders on New York's subways are rare, at least two have been linked to them this year.
Earlier this month, a 35-year-old man was killed and five others were injured in a shooting during the evening rush hour at the Mount Eden Avenue station in the Bronx. In January, a 45-year-old father of three was shot and killed on a Brooklyn No. 3 train after he intervened in an argument over loud music.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Dakota Santiago Contributed to the report.
