Video shows good Samaritan tackling subway slasher
Incredible video shows a hero good Samaritan tackling a crazed knifeman who had started stabbing a stranger on a Manhattan subway platform.
The footage shows the attacker — clad all in black — strolling on the platform in Union Square last Wednesday night before he pounced on a 54-year-old woman, who was slashed several times.
But onlooker Sean Conaboy immediately leaped into action, the clip shows — racing over and pushing the knifeman off his victim, then jumping on him again when he went back to the screaming woman.
Conaboy then pinned the knifeman from behind with a jiu-jitsu-style hold, while others helped to restrain the maniac as he tried to bite Conaboy.
Conaboy, 52, told NBC that he was able to help so quickly because he had already clocked the suspect “acting a little bit suspiciously” before the random attack.
He recalled the victim being “pulled backward.”
“She screamed, and then an arm and a hand came out with a [dagger with] a fairly long blade — 5 inches maybe — and made an arching sweeping motion,” he recalled.
“Time slowed down and I thought, ‘Why am I not getting stabbed?'” he told the station, saying, “I’m fortunate to be alive.”
The victim — who asked not to be identified — told CBS that Canoboy “very well may have saved my life.”
“I think he was a hero,” she said, saying of the subway attack, “I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.”
“I’m not gonna give in to a life of fear, but I think it remains to be seen how it will affect me long term … from a PTSD standpoint,” she said.
Officers arrested 22-year-old Joshua Nazario at the scene. He was charged with four felony counts, including criminal possession of a weapon.
