Queens subway rider charged with attempted murder after throat-slashing attack

Queens, NY — A 21-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after prosecutors say he launched an unprovoked knife attack on a fellow straphanger aboard a 7 train at the Mets-Willets Point station in Corona late Sunday night.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Luis Pallchisaca of Richmond Hill was arraigned Wednesday on charges of attempted murder in the second degree, first-degree assault, and weapon possession. Prosecutors allege Pallchisaca approached a 25-year-old man as he entered the train around 11:30 p.m. on September 21, slashing the victim’s throat and stabbing him in the back multiple times before fleeing.

The victim was rushed to a local hospital where he underwent emerg

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