Rigoberto Lopez, 21, was taken into custody by New York City police on Saturday
Police sources said Lopez, who is mentally ill, was charged on Sunday with murder and attempted murder after confessing to four separate attacks
Claudine Roberts, 44, was identified by her father as one of the victims who died from the attack after she was stabbed multiple times
Authorities said a man was also fatally stabbed in neck, torso in southern Queens
Subway rider, 67-year-old male, was wounded in stabbing on Friday before noon
Another man, 43, was wounded in stabbing in 181st Street station, police said
Lopez is now being held without bail, according to New York City police
NYC transit heads ask for more cops in subways following string of attacks.
Hundreds of additional law enforcement officers have flooded the New York City subway system to protect straphangers amid a surge in violent crimes in transit – as Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it’s up to Big Apple officials to figure it out.
New York Police Department Chief of Transit Kathleen O’Reilly announced Tuesday the department would deploy more than 100 additional officers than previously planned, with 644 total cops being assigned to the subway system amid safety concerns following a terrifying string of attacks, officials said. We are able to achieve this through overtime, deployment of officers normally assigned to administrative duties and re-assignment of other non-transit officers, she said during a Tuesday morning press conference, according to the New York Post.
A homeless, mentally-ill Jamaican woman was brutally stabbed to death, reportedly by a deranged man on a train in Manhattan, New York in the United States on Saturday.
Rigoberto Astwood Lopez regularly behaved strangely and was paralyzed by his obsession over small details, but gave no indication he was homicidal, sister Lizbeth Astwood, 27, told the Daily News.