The panhandler who allegedly stabbed a good Samaritan on a Manhattan prepare was proven in NYPD surveillance footage launched early Tuesday.
Bruce Fuentes, 27, was making an attempt to cease the aggressive vagrant on a southbound B prepare at forty seventh–fiftieth Streets–Rockefeller Center station at 2:20 a.m. Monday, in response to authorities and the sufferer.
Then the panhandler, who gave the impression to be in his 50s, pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed him within the torso earlier than getting off the prepare and fleeing onto the road, cops stated.

Footage launched by police exhibits the balding, goateed man contained in the station carrying a black long-sleeved shirt, black sweatpants and white sneakers. He is carrying what seems to be a darkish duffel bag with smaller luggage connected.
Cops say he’s about 5 toes 9 with a husky construct.
Police had been nonetheless on the lookout for him Tuesday morning.
The sufferer was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center, the place he was listed in steady situation.
Fuentes, a meals deliveryman, was taking the prepare house after a couple of drinks when he confronted the suspect — who was “just about making an attempt to trouble individuals for what he needed,” he told The Post from the hospital on Monday.
“I simply informed him, ‘Leave me alone, like simply again off.’”
“He simply grew to become aggressive and that’s once I needed to defend myself,” he stated.
“It obtained ugly. I didn’t understand I used to be stabbed ‘til I obtained off the prepare and noticed the blood,” Fuentes added. “Thank God it wasn’t that deep.”
Fuentes, of Sunset Park, slammed the town’s subway system over its soaring crime rates.
“It sucks what’s taking place,’’ he stated. “The subway system is a multitude proper now.’’