Two sliced in subway brawl
TWO MEN were slashed with a broken beer bottle when a brawl broke out early Friday in the Times Square subway station, police and witnesses said.
Three suspects were arrested and two were still being sought.
The fight erupted around 4:30 a.m. in front of an elevator on the Seventh Ave. side of the station’s passage to Eighth Ave.
Police said a 33-year-old man was slashed in the face and a 24-year-old man was slashed in the neck, throat and hands.
The victims, on opposite sides of what appears to be a fight pitting five men against two, were in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital, police said.
An argument broke out and one of the men in the group of five took a Corona bottle and smashed it over the older victim’s head. Both victims were then slashed.
The 24-year-old was bleeding profusely, according to a witness. “He was slicing, slicing, and the one guy was covered in blood, all down his shirt,” said Sohar Wardhi, a newsstand worker who witnessed the melee in the city’s busiest subway station.
The five suspects ran off as the two wounded men staggered to look for help. The 24-year-old, his neck spurting blood on the walls and floor of the station, climbed several flights of stairs to the exit on 41st St. and Seventh Ave., where he collapsed.
Oscar Gonzales, 21, Edwin Franco, 24, and Miguel-Sanchez Baltazar, 26, of Manhattan, were charged with second-degree gang assault, police said.