This morning I was at the F train station at Seventh Avenue at around 9AM. The platform was crowded with hundreds of disgruntled commuters waiting for the train. Then I heard an announcement about there being no F train service because of a police investigation at the 15th Street Station at Prospect Park West.
A frustrated parade of commuters marched over to the Fourth Avenue G train station. The crowd was so big, there was a line to get down the stairs. A woman told me that she’d heard the real reason for the police investigation: someone had stabbed his parents and then jumped in front of a train.
It must have been around 9:30am when I heard that. I was on my way to New Paltz via Port Authority to visit my friend Nancy on her birthday.
The R-train was so crowded I got out of the station and took a car service to Atlantic Avenue, where I got the 2 train into Manhattan.
Indeed, a 31-year old man stabbed both of his parents and then jumped in front of a G train at the 15th Street station.
The man’s mother is dead, his father is in critical condition and the son is in stable condition at Lutheran Hospital. Here’s an excerpt from the Brooklyn Paper story.
Witnesses told police that the violence erupted inside a quaint brick-faced one-family home on Howard Place between Windsor Place and Prospect Avenue at 8:15 am when Ryan Devaney lashed out on his parents, plunging a knife into his 57-year-old mother’s eye and abdomen, killing her, and slashing his 50-year-old father’s throat.
The father stumbled out of the home, holding his blood-soaked neck while his son ran from the home en route to the F and G station in nearby Bartel Pritchard Square.
Horrified commuters watched as he jumped in front of a Queens-bound G train.
