Man Charged in Fatal Stabbing of a Subway Rider in NYC

A man was arrested on a manslaughter charge in connection with to the fatal stabbing of a New York City subway rider who allegedly punched his girlfriend and harassed other passengers.

The altercation occurred just after 8 p.m. Tuesday on a northbound J train as it approached Marcy Avenue and Broadway, New York police said. The victim, identified as Devictor Ouedraogo, 36, of Brooklyn, was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital with a stab wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead at the hospital, police said. A toxicology report will be conducted.

Ouedraogo had allegedly been harassing people on the train and acting belligerently and erratically, law enforcement sources told NBC New York.

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