Subway Stabber Arrested After Two Brooklyn Attacks: NYPD

BROOKLYN, NY — A man accused of stabbing two women inside Brooklyn subway stations in the last few weeks has been caught, according to police.

Denzel Hodge, 26, was charged over the weekend with assault, menacing and harassment in the unprovoked attacks, which landed a 20-year-old and 77-year-old woman in the hospital, according to police.

His arrest came a few days after his most recent attack. Police say he came up behind the elderly woman at the Crescent Street subway station around 8 a.m. last Tuesday and stabbed her in the back with an unknown sharp object. The 77-year-old woman was sent to the hospital and is in stable condition, police said.

A few weeks earlier, Hodge is accused of coming up to the 20-year-old woman at Van Siclen Avenue station and punching her in the back, according to police. As the woman and him argued, Hodge took out a knife and stabbed the woman three times in the abdomen, police said.

She was also taken to a local hospital in stable condition.

The series of attacks come as city officials work to tamp down crime on the city's subway system with a "Subway Safety Plan" that began earlier this month.

Violent attacks have continued even as the safety plan rolled out, including a man stabbed at a station in Crown Heights last week and a man who was shot at Broadway Junction station, according to officials.

Subway crimes as a whole have spiked 30 percent in the week since the safety plan was in place, according to reports.