BUSHWICK — The man wanted for stabbing a fellow straphanger during a fight aboard a J train in Brooklyn over the weekend surrendered to police Monday afternoon, law-enforcement sources said.
Alton Chesney, 46, turned himself in at an east Brooklyn stationhouse after the NYPD released video footage of him grappling with a teen on a Queens-bound J train shortly before 3:30 p.m. Sunday, sources said.
The video showed him grabbing a 19-year-old rider by the back of his jacket while waving what appears to be a sharp object. The video cut out and he stabbed the teen moments later, the NYPD said.
When the train pulled into the Chauncey Street station, the wounded teen ran out while Chesney stayed on, police said.
The teen was treated at Brookdale Hospital and released.
Chesney, of Bushwick, was charged with assault. He has several prior arrests including for robbery and criminal contempt, police said.
The Bushwick man was busted July 11 in East New York after he tried to grab a woman's purse and then hit her with a tree branch when she fought back, according to court papers. He then bit another man on the hand, prosecutors said in the complaint.
Chesney turned himself in on a contempt charge, prosecutor sources said, though police sources added he may have also been motivated to surrender after seeing himself on TV.
It’s unclear what he and the victim were fighting about.
