New York Daily News

Heard my vic say N-word, stab susp says

- Ellen Moynihan and Graham Rayman

The man who leapt across subway tracks to stab a stranger told cops he heard the victim utter the Nword to another straphange­r, police sources said.

Bilal Abdullah, 52, heard or thought he heard Frankie Marquez, 32, spew the slur in the Ralph Ave station on the A and C line in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, about 11:15 on Saturday.

Abdullah charged across four sets of subway tracks, climbed on the opposite platform and stabbed Marquez in the neck, chest, back and arm. Marquez was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital.

Elsa Marquez, the victim’s mom, told the Daily News her son is unconsciou­s. “He’s moving around, but he had a slight stroke.”

“Even though if my son did that, he don’t have no reason to stab him,” she said.

Abdullah was ordered held without bail and remains in jail. “I stabbed him,” Abdullah told cops after his arrest, according to court papers.

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