Victim’s Cuts Required Four Stitches
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Bronx man has been charged with first-degree Assault and other charges for allegedly cutting an MTA conductor’s face in a Bronx subway station, causing wounds that required eight stitches.
District Attorney Clark said, “This MTA conductor was doing her job, which is ensuring the safety of passengers, when she was allegedly attacked by the defendant in a random, unprovoked incident. This was unconscionable. Anyone who assaults a transit worker will be held accountable.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Isaiah Thompson, 29, of Morrison Avenue, the Bronx, was arraigned today on two counts of first-degree Assault, three counts of second-degree Assault, third-degree Assault and fourth-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon by Bronx Supreme Court Justice George Villegas. He was remanded and is due back in court on August 21, 2025.
According to the investigation, on June 10, 2025, at approximately 12:20 p.m., Lynette Pierce, 36, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority conductor, was on a southbound number six train. When the train pulled into the Whitlock Avenue subway station in the Foxhurst section, Pierce was looking up and down the platform when a man came up and slashed the left side of her face with an unknown sharp object. Pierce suffered two lacerations to her face. She was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital where she received eight stitches. The incident was captured on video. Thompson was arrested on a warrant at his home on June 12, 2025.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Kelvin Gomez of the Bronx Robbery Squad for his work on the investigation.
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