A social media influencer and singer says he was nearly killed after a violent stabbing broke out within the subway automobile he was driving in early New Yr’s Day.
TikToker Chris Olsen says he was on the subway together with his good friend when two males started shouting at one another, one thing he thought can be one other odd verbal dispute on the New York Metropolis subway.
“We simply witnessed principally a stabbing and nearly died on the subway ourselves,” Olsen mentioned in a video posted to TikTok on Jan. 1.
Olsen – who says he rides the subway “on a regular basis” – wasn’t phased by the screaming match however his out-of-town good friend Cara received “just a little nervous” — nonetheless, he reassured her the whole lot was nice.
Then, one of many unidentified straphangers pulled out “a extremely massive knife” because the back-and-forth yelling continued.
Unaware of the approaching hazard, Olsen, Cara and the rest of the passengers stayed seated within the subway automobile till the man “behind” them rushed in the direction of the opposite man.
“And each single particular person on the prepare will get up and begins working proper at Cara and I as a result of we’re close to the tip of the automobile,” he mentioned within the video seen over 10 million instances.
Olsen, who was positioned on the door to alter automobiles, used his “adrenaline and untapped superhero energy” to tear the door open because the frantic crowd jumped over to the adjoining automobile.
The panicked group of straphangers rushed into the opposite automobile, inflicting these inside to begin yelling on the commotion as all of them raced to the opposite finish to get to the subsequent automobile in line.
“The door in entrance of that’s utterly locked, however all we will hear behind us is individuals screaming, we don’t know if somebody has introduced out a gun, we don’t know who else has been stabbed,” he added.
Olsen says he heard screaming within the background because the rising crowd had pushed the chums towards a wall with no the place to run.
One passenger pulled the emergency brake, stopping the prepare, and sat for what Olsen estimated to be 20 minutes.
A annoyed man allegedly yelled at his fellow riders to cease screaming and relax “as a result of it was simply making it worse for everybody.”
A conductor ultimately arrived within the automobile and opened the locked door, permitting the displaced passengers to enter the subsequent automobile and sit down earlier than the prepare moved to the subsequent station.
Olsen, who boasts practically 14 million followers on the app, wasn’t deterred from the New Yr’s morning expertise and was commuting on the prepare Thursday.
“Again on the subway to stop a trauma response from forming,” he wrote on his Instagram story. “Shaking a bit however I survived!”
Olsen didn’t specify which prepare he was on, however a number of stabbings have plagued the NYC subway system within the contemporary new 12 months.
Two males stabbed one another when a battle broke out in a Hell’s Kitchen prepare simply after 2 a.m. New Yr’s Day, Fox 5 NY reported.
Later within the morning, two extra males had been stabbed in separate incidents. The primary concerned a 30-year-old who was knifed on the No. 1 prepare platform at one hundred and tenth Road-Cathedral Parkway.
About quarter-hour later a 31-year-old man was stabbed within the again on board a northbound No. 2 prepare on the 14th Road station.
Each victims had been taken to native hospitals with non-life threatening accidents.
