NYPD officials have arrested a suspect in connection to a series of stabbings that left a 14-year-old boy dead and another injured at a subway station.
Caleb Rijos was standing outside the Mitchell Houses in Mott Haven on East 138th Street in Manhattan when he was stabbed twice in the chest at around 9:25 am on January 10.
Responding officials found the teenager unconscious and unresponsive at the scene and rushed him to the Lincoln Medical Center. Before he could reach the hospital, Rijos was pronounced dead in the ambulance, cops later confirmed.
As of now, investigators believe the attack was unprovoked and random.
A spot of blood on the sidewalk could be seen just outside an entrance for the Third Avenue-138th Street station for the 6 train along with a single Ugg shoe.
In a press conference, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said: “Video shows that the victim is standing alone on the sidewalk, by himself, when he is approached by this perpetrator who immediately stabs him two times in the chest and flees the scene.”
Father Jacob Rijos described him as a ‘wonderful boy’ who was caring and loving.
“It’s hard right now. We’re sad. We are trying to discuss the next steps. We don’t really know what happened,” he told the New York Times.
Soon after the incident, a person was identified as a potential suspect and was taken into custody.
Officials believe that the unidentified tall Hispanic man is also connected to another stabbing that occurred on January 5.
Here’s the chilling footage of the Bronx serial stabber casually walking after killing a 14-year-old and attacking another man:
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