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Man Arrested in Yankee Stadium Subway Station Stabbing, Police Say

By Eddie Small | May 3, 2017 10:20am
 Siby Diarra, 22, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder for repeatedly stabbing a 30-year-old man in the Yankee Stadium subway stop, police said.
Siby Diarra, 22, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder for repeatedly stabbing a 30-year-old man in the Yankee Stadium subway stop, police said.
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CONCOURSE — The man suspected of stabbing a 30-year-old repeatedly in the chest in the Yankee Stadium subway station was been arrested Tuesday, police said.

Siby Diarra, 22, is accused of stabbing his male victim several times in the torso by the B/D subway line on the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium stop on April 25 around 2:15 p.m. after the two got in a fight, according to the NYPD.

EMS took the victim to Lincoln Hospital, and he was admitted in stable condition.

Video shows Diarra walking through the subway station.

Police charged Diarra with attempted murder, assault and menacing, police said.

He had previously been arrested for forgery after being caught altering MetroCards to change their fare value, police said.