He didn’t immediately realize that he was bleeding. Several moments passed from when the man struck 25-year-old John Adams in the chest until Adams fell to the ground. His attacker, a white man wearing wire-rimmed glasses, hopped on a 2 train. It was almost noon on Monday, Dec. 22, at the IRT station on 14th Street and Seventh Avenue.
A couple of hours after Adams was stabbed, a man named Ivan Frazer rode the E train in from Queens. When the train stopped at the 53rd Street Station, a passenger got up and took a swipe at Frazer — who caught the blow and threw the man against the door. They both got off the train and Frazer yelled at the man, who pulled a knife from his pocket. People on the platform fled.
Frazer ran, too, when he noticed the blood dripping from his hand.
Two hours later, 19-year-old Luis Rodriguez was accosted by the man with wire-rimmed glasses on Madison between 40th and 41st. After a brief altercation, during which Rodriguez’s wallet was taken, the man stabbed the teen in the chest. Rodriguez was taken to a hospital, but doctors could not save him.
